Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 01:06:23 +0300 From: Alexey Zelkin <phantom@FreeBSD.org.ua> To: java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: jdk14 port users warning... Message-ID: <20031023010623.B71141@phantom.cris.net> In-Reply-To: <20031020093159.A49750@phantom.cris.net>; from phantom@freebsd.org on Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:31:59AM %2B0300 References: <20031020093159.A49750@phantom.cris.net>
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hi,
Just wanted to let you know guys that probably fork() issue is no
more a gostoper. I have made a patch which improved situation a lot.
If nobody of our threads guru will object to my change -- I'll commit
it.
PS: to those who are interesting about details -- look for my
most recent post to -threads.
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:31:59AM +0300, Alexey Zelkin wrote:
> Gentelmen,
>
> Remembering that someone asked about potential problems with jdk14
> I would like to warn everybody who use applications which utilize
> java to call external applications. Very rare (very very) jdk14
> attempt to fork another copy fails. Or correctly to say fails to
> complete. Reasons of this behaviour still unclear and non-reproducible.
> Just be careful.
>
> And another "huge" problem... Drag'n'Drop does not work under FreeBSD
> (using native 1.4.1). If you need this "feature" please continue using
> linux-sun-jdk14.
>
> All other aspects of jdk14 port tested number of times perosnally by myself
> and Sun's JCK over and over. You should not expirience problems any
> problems (in case of usage of traditional environments). If your
> configuration is differ from default and you found a problem -- as
> usually report back to the mailing list.
help
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