On 11:50 Thu 13 Jan , Coleen Phillimore wrote: > > >> We're getting close to the stable hs20 branch. I don't know how or when > >> it's imported to OpenJDK6 though so I shouldn't have tried to answer the > >> question. > >> > > I usually do the work to import new versions of HotSpot into OpenJDK6 and > > Joe > > approves it, as with all OpenJDK6 patches. I've never really understood why > > we need to have both a stable branch AND an OpenJDK6 HotSpot tree, given > > they > > end up being essentially the same, but that's the way it is. > > > > We're about to make a new release of OpenJDK6 (b21) with HotSpot 19. We've > > obviously don't want to import an entire new HotSpot at this juncture, but > > will > > probably do so for b22 once the HotSpot tree becomes available. > > > > From what you say, my understanding is that 6938627 causes a regression > > from previous > > HotSpot behaviour and your patch, 7009828, fixes that regression. As > > OpenJDK6 has > > 6938627, would it not make sense to backport 7009828 as well to fix the > > regression? > > If not, what am I missing here? The patch doesn't seem hugely intrusive, > > and it reverts > > back to using the previous expected behaviour of /tmp over java.io.tmpdir. > > > I didn't know all of this.
I finally realised this, hence the explanation :-) > Yes, I think you want to backport this > change. Thanks. I now just need the thumbs up from Joe as well. Joe? > It was pretty small in diffs. You might have some confusion > since hs19 has the bug in the Oracle (not open?) releases and you do > not. I'm not sure I follow you. They use the same bug database still, as far as I'm aware. > But it only matters for people setting java.io.tmpdir property > which isn't as rare as we thought. > Yes, the reason I pressed on the issue of the backport was because I could foresee bug reports against the various distro packages (once it gets built and shipped out) due to this change. > Coleen Thanks, -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: 94EFD9D8 (http://subkeys.pgp.net) Fingerprint = F8EF F1EA 401E 2E60 15FA 7927 142C 2591 94EF D9D8
