RFR: 8295803: Console should be usable in jshell and other environments [v11]

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 22:45:52 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is to allow Console to be used even when it is not attached to the platform provided terminal, such as the case when the standard input is redirected. `System.console()` now returns a Console implementation based on `jdk.internal.le` terminal by default, or jshell implementation if available. A corresponding CSR has been drafted.
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> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Making the wrapper classes static

src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/ProxyingConsole.java line 175:

> 173: 
> 174:         public WrappingWriter(PrintWriter pw, Object lock) {
> 175:             super(pw);

PrintWriter doesn't provide a way to provide to lock object so this means the overridden methods will synchronize on "lock", the non-overridden methods will synchronize on "pw". So we will need to look at this.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11421