(S) RFR: 8141024: [Solaris] Obsolete UseAltSigs

[David Holmes]

On 15/11/2015 9:32 AM, serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> There is no webrev link in this RFR.

Sorry that does make it a little harder :) :

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8141024/webrev.v2

is now current.

Thanks,
David

> Thanks,
> Serguei
>
> On 11/13/15 23:45, David Holmes wrote:
>> Ping!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>> On 13/11/2015 11:31 AM, David Holmes wrote:
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8141024
>>>
>>> webrev:
>>>
>>>
>>> History:
>>>
>>> The JVM claimed SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 for the INTERRUPT and ASYNC signals,
>>> respectively.
>>>
>>> -Xusealtsigs, mapping to -XX:+UseAltSigs, was provided to allow users to
>>> reclaim those signals and instead use two of the real-time signals
>>> (between SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX)
>>>
>>> As of Solaris 10, Solaris provides SIGJVM1 and SIGJVM2 exclusively for
>>> the JVMs use. This avoids any conflict with user-defined signal usage.
>>>
>>> As of Java 6 we documented that on Solaris 10
>>> -Xusealtsigs/-XX:+UseAltSigs had no affect:
>>>
>>> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/signals-139944.html#gbzbh
>>>
>>> As we no longer support Solaris versions older than 10, we do not need
>>> the UseAltSigs functionality and the flags can be made Obsolete.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David
>