Approved. On Feb 6, 2013, at 12:41 PM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hega...@oracle.com> wrote:
> The changes look good to me. > > -Chris. > > On 06/02/2013 11:21, mala bankal wrote: >> HI, >> >> Request reviews for backport of bug# 8006395 to jdk7u : >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mbankal/8006395/webrev.00/ >> >> Brief Description : >> Race in the socket asynchronous close mechanism on Linux which can lead >> to blocking socket operations >> issue is with closefd which first sends wakeup signal to all the threads >> blocked on the fd , then closes/dup2 the fd. >> But since signal may arrive in between these , the thread not blocked >> needs to see that fd is closed on entry, else it will be woken up by the >> signal. >> >> >> JDK8 changeset is here : >> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/17b643956999 >> >> rgds >> mala
