On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 17:01:37 GMT, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> That is acceptable, totally.
>
> Not the rabbit-hole I expected to go down today or for an informal comment on
> an internal API.
> I have no skin in that game.
> https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/linux/what-is-linux
Joke, they should know
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:51:46 GMT, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> Well, no. It is just a kernel. Without a userland not an OS. That is why
>> they call it GNU/Linux. Kernel + userland.
>
> If you are referring to "Red Hat Enterprise Linux", it'd be correct (AFAIK)
> to say that Red Hat identifies "Red
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:08:30 GMT, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/util/OperatingSystem.java line 66:
>>
>>> 64:
>>> 65: /**
>>> 66: * The Linux Operating system.
>>
>> For the sake if completeness, Linux isn't an operating system, so this
>> statement i
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 00:27:42 GMT, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> Improvements to support OS specific customization for JDK internal use:
>> - To select values and code; allowing elimination of unused code and values
>> - Optionally evaluated by build processes, compilation, or archiving (i.e.
>> CDS)
>
On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:51:48 GMT, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/util/OperatingSystem.java line 81:
>>
>>> 79: */
>>> 80: AIX,
>>> 81: ;
>>
>> While browsing another PR I noticed that jlink also has an [OperatingSystem
>> enum](https://github.com/op
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 21:21:56 GMT, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> Improvements to support OS specific customization for JDK internal use:
>> - To select values and code; allowing elimination of unused code and values
>> - Optionally evaluated by build processes, compilation, or archiving (i.e.
>> CDS)
>
On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 14:22:17 GMT, Justin King wrote:
> > > Has this totally killed of BSD support on the JDK side? I thought
> > > building non-macOS BSD was still viable, but perhaps not - certainly not
> > > after this change.
> >
> >
> > The macOS port in 7u4 was based on a BSD port and th
