Question about location of libdt_socket vs libdt_shmem

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Thomas Stüfe <thomas.stuefe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> thanks! One more question: I find no platform dependent coding on for the
> shared memory transport layer for Unix, just for Windows. I would have
> expected some mmap() calls somewhere, and a LoadLibrary(dt_shmem). Looking
> closer, I also cannot find a libdt_shmem.so on a jdk10 linux build.
>
> How does shared memory transport work on Unix?
>
>
Ah, just found out dt_shmem was only ever supported on Windows according to
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jpda/conninv.html.

Please disregard my last question then.

Thanks! Thomas


> ..Thomas
>
>
> On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 11:03 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 03/05/2017 09:47, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
>>
>> :
>>
>> And for the socket transport, it is not needed at the jdi side because
>> there the socket transport is reimplemented in pure java?
>>
>> That's right. If there was an issue with the socket transport then it
>> would have been fixed a long time ago - the reason is that the socket
>> transport supports remote debugging and important to be able to have a tool
>> on one machine using JDI to debug a target on another machine.
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>>
>
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