8202261: (fc) FileChannel.map and RandomAccessFile.setLength should not preallocate space

[Andrew Hughes]

On Sat, 20 Oct 2018 at 18:50, Andrew Hughes <gnu.andrew at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2018 at 07:39, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 21/05/2018 22:56, Ismael Juma wrote:
> > > Any thoughts on a backport to Java 8? Java 10 would be nice to have,
> > > but Java 11 is not far away and I don't expect many users to stick
> > > with Java 10 for long given the update policy. However, many users
> > > will stick to Java 8 for a long time and it would be good to restore
> > > the behaviour there.
> > >
> > I don't have cycles to get involved in changes for JDK 8 updates.
> > However, I agree JDK-8168628 should be backed out from jdk8u.
> >
> > -Alan
>
> Was there any action on this for 8u? 8168628 just went out in 8u191
> (earlier inclusion is only listed for b30+ builds, which seem to refer
> to Oracle customer builds)
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Ah, I see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202261 is scheduled
for 8u202 (got confused with 8202116 and it doesn't mention 8168628
in the changeset). I've flagged it with 8u-CPU-critical-request so it can
hopefully get in 8u201 as well.
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