Re: [cp-patches] handle case with lots of unreferenced objects that has fd's open

[Archie Cobbs]

Noa Resare wrote:
> I will investigate this further, but I think that there might be a good
> idea to add a way to "force full gc/finalization" to the classpath jvm
> interface for use cases when performance is not important compared to
> getting a full finalization executed.

I agree.. Classpath needs a way to force (not just suggest) finalization,
otherwise we are buggy.

Eg. see this bug and others like it:

    http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4797189

especially my comment (alc) at the bottom.

In our case, if we only close fd's during finalize(), then we must
ensure finalization is run before giving up after EMFILE, otherwise
our implementation is incorrect.

-Archie

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