Second Code Review for WeakReference leak in the Logging API (6942989)

[Daniel D. Daugherty]

Credit where credit is due...

That was David Holmes *and* Alan Bateman that were politely pushing me
to put limits on the number of Logger objects being cleaned up...

Dan


On 6/18/2010 1:25 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a new version of my fix for the WeakReference leak in the
> Logging API done. This version uses ReferenceQueues; thanks to Eamonn
> McManus, Jeremy Manson and Tony Printezis for their insights on using
> ReferenceQueues. Here's a pointer to Tony's paper for background info:
>
>     http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/javase/finalization/
>
> This version also has limits on the number of dead Loggers that are
> cleaned up per call; thanks to Alan Bateman for politely pushing me in
> that direction.
>
> The webrev is again relative to OpenJDK7, but the bug is escalated so
> the fix will be backported to the JDK6-Update train. So again, I'll
> need a minimum of two code reviewers.
>
> Here is the URL for the webrev:
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dcubed/6942989-webrev/1/
>
> Thanks, in advance, for any reviews.
>
> Dan
>
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