[8u] RFR: 8210836: Build fails with warn_unused_result in openjdk/src/jdk.hotspot.agent/linux/native/libsaproc/ps_core.c

[Andrew Hughes]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 at 15:39, Severin Gehwolf <sgehwolf at redhat.com> wrote:

snip...

>
> Two reasons: (1) JDK-8140482 isn't a small change. (2) The patch
> doesn't apply cleanly[1] from JDK 9 so would be some work to get the
> pre-requisite in.
>
> It appears the code is already out of sync and the risk would be higher
> if we backported all of JDK-8140482 for a relatively small change of
> JDK-8210836.
>
> The aim was to keep the backport as minimal as possible.
>

Not too bad. I've proposed it:

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2018-November/035349.html
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