On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:23:25 GMT, Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> I  changed it to read the file into a ByteBuffer to avoid the problem that we 
> can't control when NIO free's the mmaped
> buffer. This is a problem for leaking tmp Type1 font files when using 
> createFont and I thought maybe we could just
> change that case, but Type 1 fonts are getting very rare. Neither Mac nor 
> Windows ship them and Mac at least does not
> support them at all, and current Linuxes seem to be almost all TTF and OTF 
> fonts. Also T1 fonts are small, so any
> minimal peformance benefit is not worth it. There isn't a specific regression 
> test. I verified this on Ubuntu 20.04
> which has at least a (very) few Type 1 fonts.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: cc7521c4
Author:    Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/cc7521c4
Stats:     13 lines in 1 file changed: 1 ins; 1 del; 11 mod

8252199: Reimplement support of Type 1 fonts without MappedByteBuffer

Reviewed-by: serb, jdv

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/258

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