[jdk8u-dev] RFR: 8287132: Retire Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit so that it always throws UOE

[David Holmes]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 17:09:21 GMT, Andrew John Hughes <andrew at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Forward port of the changes for SE 8 Maintenance release 4, as applied to jdk8u-ri, for:
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>> [JDK-8287132](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8287132): Retire Runtime.runFinalizersOnExit so that it always throws UOE
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>> The changes applied "unclean" only with regard to trivial things like copyright year updates.
>> 
>> Thanks.
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> I agree this matches the version in jdk8u-ri with appropriate adjustments for newer copyright headers in 8u-dev. Changes also match the appropriate subset of [JDK-8198249](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8198249) as also verified by Mandy on the original PR.
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> I've added `jdk8u-fix-yes` approval so this can be integrated now.

Thank you @gnu-andrew !

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/92