On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 07:55:31 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> I'm not aware of any other uses either; its not intended to be used outside >> of ProcessImpl especially since the addition of the new protocol to >> communicate parameters and confirm launching of the child. > > This curiosity has been present since Rob's first version: > https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2012-November/012417.html I assumed that at some point in its life, maybe just in the first unpublished versions, the jspawnhelper had a variable number of arguments, possibly from different callers. But the fd-string was always supposed to be the last one. Then this would have made perfect sense. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14531#discussion_r1236569635
