Review Request: JDK-8001334 - Remove use of JVM_* functions from java.io code

[Alan Bateman]

Dan - I'm going to move this review to core-libs-dev, hope that is okay.

On 22/01/2013 07:25, Dan Xu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Interruptible I/O on Solaris has been highly problematicand undercut 
> portability. And the long term plan is to remove it completely from 
> JDK. In JDK6, the VM option, UseVMInterruptibleIO, was introduced as 
> part of a phase-out plan to allow developers/customers to disable it. 
> In JDK7, the default value of UseVMInterruptibleIO flag was changed 
> to"false" to make Solaris blockingI/O operations uninterruptible by 
> Java thread interruptsby default.
>
> The last stepof this phase-out plan is to remove the feature 
> completely. And it is good to do it now in JDK8. In this fix, I 
> removed all related codes in IO area by replacing JVM_* functions with 
> direct system calls. Please help review the proposed fix. Similar 
> changes in networking area will be done via a different bug.
>
> Bug: https://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8001334
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dxu/8001334/webrev.00/ 
> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Edxu/8001334/webrev.00/>
>
> Reference:
> http://ccc.us.oracle.com/6423562
> http://ccc.us.oracle.com/6554406
>
> Best,
>
> -Dan

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/attachments/20130123/53619cb1/attachment.html