RFR - 8142872: Remove support for sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider from 9
Rob McKenna
rob.mckenna at oracle.com
Fri Nov 27 18:37:08 UTC 2015
Hi folks,
From time to time we get bugs on PollSelectorProvider despite
recommending people use alternative implementations. The only way it can
be used is setting the following system property:
-Djava.nio.channels.spi.SelectorProvider=sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider
Superior SelectorProvider implementations exist for all Oracle JDK
platforms and PollSelectorProvider should not be used on those platforms
if at all possible. That being the case we'd like to pull it from the
default build:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~robm/8076282/
-Rob
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