RFR(S): 8184330: Remove sun.nio.ch.Util.atBugLevel() either completely or at least get rid of volatile field bugLevel

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/07/2017 12:54, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> thanks. I have updated the webrev in place.
>
The updated webrev looks good.
>
> As for documentation/bugids: I found that one: 
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/compatibility-417013.html. 
> However, the text in there seems not to be quite correct (any more) as 
> it talks about bugLevel could be set to “1.4”, “1.5” or “1.6” – which 
> you can do but obviously has no effect. And the referenced bug 
> (https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6621689) does not talk about 
> “sun.nio.ch.bugLevel”. Are you aware of any more information that I 
> can use for the CSR?
>
>
The first part of this JDK 7 release note looks right but I don't know 
why it documents that the bugLevel property that can configured to 
restore old behavior. I suspect (but not certain) that it has been mixed 
up with another change.



-Alan
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