6853336: (process) disable or remove clone-exec feature (6850720)
Summary: clone-exec feature (6850720) needs more work on 32-bit Linux
Reviewed-by: alanb, michaelm
Contributed-by: Martin Buchholz <martinrb@google.com>
--- a/jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/UNIXProcess_md.c Sun Jun 14 14:33:30 2009 -0700
+++ b/jdk/src/solaris/native/java/lang/UNIXProcess_md.c Sun Jun 21 12:02:14 2009 -0700
@@ -49,6 +49,18 @@
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <limits.h>
+/*
+ * (Hopefully temporarily) disable the clone-exec feature pending
+ * further investigation and bug-fixing.
+ * 32-bit (but not 64-bit) Linux fails on the program
+ * Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/bin/true").waitFor();
+ * with:
+ * # Internal Error (os_linux_x86.cpp:683), pid=19940, tid=2934639536
+ * # Error: pthread_getattr_np failed with errno = 3 (ESRCH)
+ * Linux kernel/pthread gurus are invited to figure this out.
+ */
+#define USE_CLONE 0
+
#ifndef USE_CLONE
#ifdef __linux__
#define USE_CLONE 1