On 7 nov 2012, at 23:22, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > 2012/11/2 11:36 -0700, staffan.lar...@oracle.com: >> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/iotrace/webrev.00/ > > Who (or what) is the intended consumer of the sun.misc.IoTrace and > IoTraceListener APIs? In other words, are these meant to be stable > external interfaces that we're going to support for use by arbitrary > code over the long term?
The primary intended consumer is Java Flight Recorder which is JDK internal. > The reason I ask is that sun.misc is likely to go away in JDK 9, as > part of the modularization work. If these APIs are meant to be used > by any code outside of the JDK then we should probably put them in > a more appropriate package now in order to avoid pain later on. I don't have any preferences. Can you suggest a better package? Thanks, /Staffan