Hi Alan,
Alan Bateman said the following on 04/20/09 00:00:
As it happens, there was a bug in that code (6526376) that caused
NPE to be thrown so jdk7 b10 is the first build where
IllegalStateException is possible.
Ah I see. Seems to me that 6526376 took the easy fix and ignored the
underlying issue of whether this should be an exceptional circumstance
or not. :(
I don't think we want to force Mandy into fixing issues that aren't of
her doing so submitting a bug and letting her move on is probably the
best thing to do.
Agreed.
I think there's probably a way to keep the list in java code (for
resource management) and also add the fd to list used by the VM. Adding
a new "VM shutdown hook" to be executed by the VMThread at the
termination safepoint would probably be the best place to deal with this.
Cheers,
David
