RR(S): JDK-8022616 u4 should not be used as a type for thread_id

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Staffan and Yumin,

Thank you for feedback.

Fixed (in place, please press shift-reload)

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsamersoff/JDK-8022616/webrev.02/

-Dmitry

On 2013-09-24 11:57, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Please review changes:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dsamersoff/JDK-8022616/webrev.02/
> 
> Story:
> 
> Tracing framework expect u4 as an id of thread
> 
> pthread_t chosen as a tread id for variety of BSD platforms couldn't be
> converted to u4 so it cause compilation failure on BSD x64
> 
> Solution:
> 
> Change thread_id to pid_t and get this id  directly from kernel, the
> same manner as Linux code does. Mac Os X still uses mach_port instead of
> thread id.
> 
> Tested on FreeBSD and OpenBSD and also code passed jprt.
> 
> -Dmitry
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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