----- Original Message ----- > 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. >
I concur. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) PGP Key: 248BDC07 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EC5A 1F5E C0AD 1D15 8F1F 8F91 3B96 A578 248B DC07
