Hi Christoph, > On 9 Jan 2017, at 05:56, Langer, Christoph <christoph.lan...@sap.com> wrote: > > Ping: Please review this backport to JDK8. > > From: Langer, Christoph > Sent: Donnerstag, 29. Dezember 2016 10:37 > To: net-dev@openjdk.java.net; jdk8u-...@openjdk.java.net > Subject: [8u-dev]: Request for Review and Approval: 8075484: > SocketInputStream.socketRead0 can hang even with soTimeout set > > Hi, > > please review (and eventually approve) the change for downporting 8075484. > > Webrev for 8u-dev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~clanger/webrevs/8075484.8udev/
The changes look ok to me. > Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8075484 > JDK9 Change: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/af17b6bc08dd > JDK9 Review Thread(s): > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2016-August/010171.html > http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/net-dev/2016-September/010201.html > > We had customer reports who ran into that issue with Java 8. So this should > be downported. > > The problem is, that the fix does not apply to Solaris as Solaris needs some > calls into hotspot. This is because in JDK 8 the flag for interruptible IO is > still supported (though deprecated). But I think it is still worthwile to > bring this down for the other platforms which I’m proposing with my > changeset. So I extracted the new code manually from the JDK9 changeset and > made it fit into JDK8 coding. Ok, I see the complication. On Solaris these calls still go through the VM to support Interruptible IO ( through the JVM_XXX interface). Thankfully, this is no longer the case in 9. -Chris.