[8u40] Request for approval: 8064391: More thread safety problems in core reflection

[Seán Coffey]

> But they should surely make the next update releases - not
> sure what your schedule is for that.
Preliminary schedule is available here : 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/releases/8u40.html
Rampdown 2 is scheduled for December - the bar will be raised for 
incoming 8u40 fixes from there on as we work towards 8u40 release.

regards,
Sean.

On 13/11/2014 16:30, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck
> <joel.franck at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I still like to backport your patch as is, because:
>>
>> - It is small and "obviously correct"
>> - Fixing an existing, but hard to repro race
>> - I was assuming "Here are changes we made locally at Google" implied it
>>    was in production
> Yes, those are correct.
>
>> If any of this was incorrect, I agree we should wait and reiterate this
>> some more on core-libs-dev. If my assumptions were correct I think this
>> should go in as is, potentially followed by more fixes later on.
> Yes, it is perfectly fine to commit these changes now.  A reason to
> wait might be to consolidate these fixes with additional possible
> fixes.  But they should surely make the next update releases - not
> sure what your schedule is for that.