RFR: 8324668: JDWP process management needs more efficient file descriptor handling [v7]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:01:15 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 one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   Minor - fix alignment

tier1, tier2 and tier3 testing of the latest state of this PR has passed both with and without the changes that were done in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8300088.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17588#issuecomment-1918911434