Re: RFR: 8214295: Populate handlers while holding streamHandlerLock

[Seán Coffey]

On 26/11/18 12:59, Pavel Rappo wrote:
On 26 Nov 2018, at 12:12, Seán Coffey <sean.cof...@oracle.com> wrote:

JDK-8213942 synchronization fix can be improved
Looks like a soft language for what actually is a race condition. I wonder at
what point should we just rewrite the thing as Alan mentioned using "fully
concurrent lookups"?
Yes - something that should be considered for a JDK 12+ fix perhaps. 
This fix
in its current guise is simple enough can can be backported.

regards,
Sean.

-Pavel