RFR (S): 8137165: Tests fail in SR_Handler because thread is not VMThread or JavaThread

[Kim Barrett]

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 2:43 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kim,
> 
> On 15/03/2016 4:34 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Mar 14, 2016, at 2:46 AM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8137165
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8137165/webrev/
>>> 
>>> This isn't a fix per-se but some additional diagnostic code to try and detect the conditions where the bug might manifest. The basic failure mode was:
>> 
>> Changes look good.
>> 
>> Good cleanup with the sigemptyset calls.  Pedantic is a good thing when dealing with POSIX.
> 
> Thanks for the Review.
> 
>> Since this isn’t an actual fix, should the change be associated with a different bug number?
>> Or are you treating this as the moral equivalent of resolving as not reproducible?
> 
> I toyed with creating a subtask for this change and leaving the original open, but realistically I think it may turn out to be "not reproducible". I can be swayed if you think a new subtask would be better?

Just making sure I understood your intent.  It doesn’t look like there’s so much information in this one that creating a new one with a reference would be a big problem if it ever shows up again.  Go ahead as is.