RFR - 8142872: Remove support for sun.nio.ch.PollSelectorProvider from 9

[Alan Bateman]

On 27/11/2015 18:37, Rob McKenna wrote:
> 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/
So in summary, leave the code in jdk repo for those that might want to 
use it for porting purposes but exclude it from Linux/Solaris/OSX 
builds. That seems reasonable to me as this SelectorProvider is not 
interesting/useful on these platforms anymore.

-Alan.