[rfc][icedtea-web] RH976833 ClassLoader deadlock

Omair Majid omajid at redhat.com
Mon Sep 16 11:00:51 PDT 2013


On 09/16/2013 01:31 PM, Andrew Azores wrote:
> +     * [...] Locking on the JNLPClassLoader instance when this method is called
> +     * can result in deadlock if another thread is dealing with the CodeBaseClassLoader
> +     * at the same time.

> +     * See bug report RH976833. On some systems the bug will manifest itself as deadlock on
> +     * every webpage with more than one Java applet, potentially also causing the browser
> +     * process to hang.
> +     * More information in the mailing list archives:
> +     * http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/distro-pkg-dev/2013-September/024536.html

This would be better 'documented' as a unit test that exercises
JNLPClassLoader.

Thanks,
Omair

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