Downport JDK-8212828 (posix_spawn on Linux as non-default) to 11u (original) (raw)

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Nov 28 16:39:00 UTC 2018

On 28/11/2018 15:36, Thomas Stüfe wrote:

Hi all,

I would like to have this patch in 11u too, so I just did a 11u downport request. Our agreement was that launchMechanism=POSIXSPAWN would stay as optional non-default value for jdk12, and at the start of JDK13 development we would switch the default to posixspawn. I would like to see this non-default-but-possible-to-set option in 11u too, just to broaden the test surface. We'd get more testers that way. What do you think, does that make sense? It would be nice to have gotten feedback from people trying it out with JDK 12 EA builds but I don't know if that is possible.

If it is backported then a CSR will be required as it will be adding a new supported value. A release note or other documentation updates might be needed too.

-Alan

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