Hi Michael, Alan,
This is a very small change to fix a problem in native code where, if
multiple threads are executing the native method, an unset value of a
static variable may be used. When setting static variables in a block we
can only be sure they are all set when the last one is. This is a common
pattern in the socket impl native code.
I plan to clean up this area of native code and remove unnecessary
duplicate static state, but for now I just want to resolve this specific
bug.
Webrev:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/6921111/webrev.00/webrev/
Thanks,
-Chris.
