RFR 9: 8034903: Add Logging of Process.start arguments and resulting pid

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Fri Feb 14 20:14:41 UTC 2014


On 14/02/2014 18:10, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> I'm not excited about having logging statements added throughout the jdk
> implementation.  PlatformLogger is an implementation detail, so real users
> cannot benefit.  Your OS should already provide facilities to let you trace
> process creation.  E.g. on Linux you can do this with strace (and I have
> done this myself in the past to debug subprocess creation).  So I'd say
> adding logging just to provide a small rarely used convenience for jdk
> developers is Not Worthwhile.
>
Just on PlatformLogger then it just forwards to j.u.logging when it is 
present.

-Alan.



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