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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.



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