On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 23:00:45 GMT, David Holmes <dhol...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Yes, its racy, and intentional, but from a diagnostic view, the developer 
>> should know that multiple callers were trying to exit. All but one will 
>> hang.  
>> Consolidating the code in a single method is cleaner and with fewer 
>> interactions between separate code blocks.
>
> I can't tell if the thread identity will be included in the log the message?
> 
> I'm not so sure it is useful to allow competing exit calls to all log their 
> intent. I would have kept the logging itself inside the locked region as per 
> the original code.

The main diagnostic is the logged message with the stack trace. The println 
version is present as a diagnostic if logging is mis-configured.

If the developer is looking to mitigate calls to Runtime.Exit, then they are 
advised to check all paths and will appreciate not having to wait for a 
different thread to win the race.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12770

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