On Tue, 29 Mar 2022 20:05:50 GMT, Mandy Chung <mch...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> A small improvement to `RawNativeLibraries`. `RawNativeLibraries::load` > returns the same `NativeLibrary` instance of a given path if it's called > multiple times. This means that multiple clients have to coordinate that the > last one using the loaded library is the one to close the library by calling > `RawNativeLibraries::unload`; otherwise, an exception may be thrown. > > This patch changes `RawNativeLibraries::load` to delegate to the underlying > platform-specific library loading mechanism e.g. dlopen/dlclose that keeps > the reference count. So each call to `RawNativeLibraries::load` and `unload` > is simply a call to dlopen and dlclose respectively. Each client of calling > `RawNativeLibraries::load` is responsible for calling > `RawNativeLibraries::unload`. This will be consistent with the current > behavior when you call `load` and `unload` with a different > `RawNativeLibraries` instance. LGTM ------------- Marked as reviewed by sundar (Reviewer). PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8022
