RFR: 6588467: Add isDaemon() and getPriority() to ThreadInfo

[Staffan Larsen]

> On 13 jan 2015, at 06:28, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Jeremy,
> 
> On 13/01/2015 4:32 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> This was long forgotten, seems to have been lost in the shuffle.  I've
>> done it, since we could use it, too:
>> 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6588467
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmanson/6588467/webrev.00/
> 
> Codewise this all appears fine to me.

Thanks for doing this. I have only scanned the code, but did not see any test. Could you please add tests for the new API?

>> Since it is an API change (albeit an uncontroversial one), it will have
>> to go through whatever the super-secret API change review process is
>> that you folks do.
> 
> Not sure if this just needs an API tweak or a JMX spec revision. If the latter then this might be a big deal. But I'll leave that to the official serviceability folk :)

No spec revision is needed, same process as for all API changes. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to drive that, so hoping someone else can jump in.

/Staffan

> 
> Cheers,
> David
> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Jeremy