8223353: (ch) Change channel close implementation to not wait for I/O threads

[Alan Bateman]

On 06/05/2019 13:18, Florian Weimer wrote:
> :
> But that descriptor consumes a slot in the descriptor table, which is an
> extremely scarce resource.  It does not matter that the file description
> used magic I/O inhibition is shared and therefore consumes very little
> kernel resources.  The original file descriptor is still occupied until
> the lazy close completes and cannot be reused for creating new channels.
>
Sure, but that is exactly how it works since JDK 1.4. If you have a JDK 
8 build handy you can trace the syscalls and see what I mean. It's 
exactly the same with classic networking too (also since JDK 1.4).

-Alan