Re: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-27 Thread Roger Riggs
Hi Thomas, On 11/26/2018 10:05 AM, Thomas Stüfe wrote: Hi Roger, On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 4:03 PM Roger Riggs wrote: Hi Thomas, I'd be interested in hearing more about the use cases. There seem to be many cases where containers are doing the management of groups of processes. The function

Re: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-26 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Hi Roger, On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 4:03 PM Roger Riggs wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > I'd be interested in hearing more about the use cases. > There seem to be many cases where containers are doing the management > of groups of processes. > > The function will need to have an equivalent on Windows. >

RE: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-23 Thread Lindenmaier, Goetz
Hi Roger, > I'd be interested in hearing more about the use cases. Well, as Thomas already stated, we use this in our test framework and in an application server environment. Our test scheduler runs tests of various VMs (we test OpenJDK builds, SapMachine builds and SAP JVM builds for Java 5-12

Re: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-21 Thread Roger Riggs
Hi Thomas, I'd be interested in hearing more about the use cases. There seem to be many cases where containers are doing the management of groups of processes. The function will need to have an equivalent on Windows. The expressed use case is taking advantage of Posix/Unix signal behavior. But

Re: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-21 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Hi David, On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:57 AM David Holmes wrote: > > On 21/11/2018 6:14 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote: > > Ping.. no-one has any thoughts on this? > > I can see it being useful for test harnesses/frameworks. Oh, very much so! We use this feature in the framework that runs our nightlies.

Re: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-21 Thread David Holmes
On 21/11/2018 6:14 pm, Thomas Stüfe wrote: Ping.. no-one has any thoughts on this? I can see it being useful for test harnesses/frameworks. It's not something I've ever looked at so have no first hand knowledge. I wonder how the semantics of Windows Jobs compare to *NIX process groups? Do

Re: Proposal: Add support for Process Groups to the JDK

2018-11-21 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Ping.. no-one has any thoughts on this? Thanks, Thomas On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 6:29 PM Thomas Stüfe wrote: > > Dear all, > > may I please hear your thoughts about the following proposal? > > We would like to add support for process groups to the JDK: the > ability to put child processes into new