On 27 aug 2013, at 13:38, David Holmes <david.hol...@oracle.com> wrote:

> On 27/08/2013 6:48 PM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>> I have also made a fix for hotspot. I messed up the link in the last email 
>> so here are both webrevs.
>> 
>> jdk: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8023786/webrev.00/
> 
> Seems okay.
> 
>> hotspot: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8023720/webrev.00/
> 
> ??? You didn't use _setjmp/_longjmp you just tried to save and restore the 
> current thread's sigmask. Which won't help in general if longjmp just fubar'd 
> the process sigmask. The effect of setting the process sigmask in a 
> multi-threaded process is undefined.

Ah, but in this case we use sigsetjmp/siglongjmp which do not touch the signal 
mask if sigsetjmp is called with 0 as the second parameter. 

/Staffan

> 
> David
> 
> 
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
>> 
>> On 27 aug 2013, at 10:41, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The original conversation about this problem is here:  
>>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/serviceability-dev/2013-August/011318.html
>>> 
>>> In short, setjmp/longjmp on OS X messes up the signal mask and we should 
>>> use _setjmp/_longjmp instead.
>>> 
>>> This change fixes two occurences in the jdk. There are a couple more in the 
>>> client and hotspot areas which I will file followup bugs about.
>>> 
>>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8023720/webrev.00/
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> /Staffan
>> 

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