On 01/09/2016 02:55, Martin Buchholz wrote:
Does an attempt to use vfork on Solaris result in something reasonable like
UnsupportedOperationException?
Yes:
$ jshell
| Welcome to JShell -- Version 9-internal
| For an introduction type: /help intro
jshell> System.setProperty("jdk.lang.Process.launchMechanism", "VFORK")
$1 ==> null
jshell> Runtime.getRuntime().exec("ls");
| java.lang.Error thrown: VFORK is not a supported process launch
mechanism on this platform.
| at ProcessImpl$Platform.lambda$launchMechanism$0
(ProcessImpl.java:151)
| at AccessController.doPrivileged (Native Method)
| at ProcessImpl$Platform.launchMechanism (ProcessImpl.java:134)
| at ProcessImpl.<clinit> (ProcessImpl.java:174)
| at ProcessBuilder.start (ProcessBuilder.java:1107)
| at ProcessBuilder.start (ProcessBuilder.java:1071)
| at Runtime.exec (Runtime.java:635)
| at Runtime.exec (Runtime.java:459)
| at Runtime.exec (Runtime.java:356)
| at (#2:1)
jshell>
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Alan Burlison
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