On 05/12/2018 10:44, David Holmes wrote:
so IMHO for this issue the "specification" should simply be:
Update the allowed values of the jdk.lang.Process.launchMechanism
property on Linux to accept the value "posix_spawn", which will use
the posix_spawn() API. The default value of "vfork" remains unchanged.
That is what CSR JDK-8214511 is about. I agree the wording could have
been a lot simpler but there is nothing controversial.
To Thomas's question as to why a CSR is needed then it is because it's
extending a supported interface. This is different to many of the
undocumented options which were added for JDK debugging or testing purposes.
-Alan
