Please review the following change.

When SA attaches to a JVM on OS X, it does not stop the process. If the JVM 
keeps running while SA inspects it can lead to all kinds of inconsistencies in 
SA. The proposed solution uses ptrace to attach to the process to keep it from 
running. Ptrace works a little bit differently on OS X, than on linux. For 
example, there is no need to attach to all threads, just attaching to the main 
process is enough. Additionally, the race that was recently found on linux [1] 
does not seem to be present on OS X (or at least I have not been able to 
reproduce it), so I have omitted that code.

webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8008102/webrev.00/

Thanks,
/Staffan

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http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2013-February/008432.html

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