Re: ProcessManager on Solaris

[Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay at redhat dot com>]

Boehm, Hans wrote:

> I'm not opposed to adding a hook to the generic collector code, so that
> any hidden threads created by the GC can call back into gcj code to
> do this sort of stuff.
>
> The problem with the patch here is that I expect we will have the same
> problem with the parallel GC threads, if anyone builds with
> --enable-parallel-mark.  And I would expect that to become the default
> a couple of years down the road when we all have multi-core chips in
> our desktops.
>
> In contrast, I'm trying to get rid of the Solaris-specific code.
> Any problems/patches there are likely to be somewhat temporary.
>  
Sure, I think some sort of hook would be a better approach, and if you 
want to propose a patch we could certainly use that instead (although 
even better would be to modify our ProcessManager to not require this).

I think this patch is sufficient to temporarily solve the problem, 
however, particularly given the 4.0 timeframe. By marking it as GCJ 
LOCAL we can identify it as something that should be replaced.

Regards

Bryce