RFR [9] 8056152 API to create Threads that do not inherit InheritableThreadLocals

[Chris Hegarty]

David, Mandy, Mark, Roger,

Thanks for your feedback. I understand that ‘stackSize’ is rarely used, but to
avoid having to provide more than one additional constructor I opted to keep
it. If someone really wants to create a Thread with a specific stack size and
not inherit initial inheritable thread-local values, then they can. As was said,
this will not be that commonly used.

I’ll finalise this as is, unless there are any objections.

-Chris.

On 9 Dec 2015, at 16:58, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> 2015/12/8 5:36 -0800, david.holmes at oracle.com:
>> On 9/12/2015 12:15 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8056152/00/webrev/
>> 
>> Addition to Thread looks good to me.
>> 
>> I vote in favor of maintaining consistency of the existing Thread 
>> construction patterns. Builders or whatever can be added later as a 
>> separate RFE if considered desirable.
> 
> I agree -- the new constructor is a bit wordy, with five parameters, but
> this is unlikely to be used all that broadly.  Introducing an entirely
> new way to create threads, with a fluent builder API or whatever, can
> come later.
> 
> - Mark