RFR: 8324668: JDWP process management needs more efficient file descriptor handling [v3]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Sat, 27 Jan 2024 13:09:45 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to address https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8324668?
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>> This change proposes to fix the issue in jdwp where when launching a child process (for the `launch=<cmd>` option), it iterates over an extremely large number of file descriptors to close each one of those. Details about the issue and the proposed fixed are added in a subsequent comment in this PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/17588#issuecomment-1912256075. tier1, tier2 and tier3 testing is currently in progress with this change.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - log a warning message if we fallback to slower logic of closing file descriptors
>  - ignore return values, cast to void

Thank you David for those inputs, I've updated the PR to implement those suggestions. CI tests continue to pass with these latest changes.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17588#issuecomment-1914348518