I was thinking it should be a behavior related change. It is ok to me not to back port.
Thanks Alan. On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 24/10/2012 10:27, Sean Chou wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> This is request for approval to push the fix of 7014860 to jdk7u, >> please take a look. >> >> Link to the bug: >> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7014860 >> >> Changeset in jdk8: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/a5a28b040714 >> >> The webrev for jdk7u is the same with changeset of jdk8 without any >> change. >> Building on windows and linux passes; jtreg test contained passes. >> >> Review threads: >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-January/002607.html >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-February/002704.html >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-April/003076.html >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-July/003274.html >> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2011-August/003383.html >> > For the record I would prefer that this change not be backported to jdk7u. > The reason is that is involves a specification change and also a subtle > change in behavior on both Linux and Windows that seems inappropriate to do > in an update release. > > -Alan. -- Best Regards, Sean Chou
