[Native:JNI] Stability, usage and maintenance of shared memory and mutex code

[Ashwin Jayaprakash]

Hi, I was browsing through the Tomcat Native source code and noticed the
Shared memory and Mutex Java classes.

So, I tried creating a quick prototype and to my pleasant surprise it worked
off the bat on 64 bit Windows 7 . I tried the jni/Shm.java and
jni/Global.java classes to share memory between 2 processes coordinated by a
mutex.

I'm writing to understand:

   1. Why the jni/Shm.java and jni/Global.java are not used in the Tomcat
   codebase
   2. Have they been superseded by something else like NIO Mmap files or
   something?
   3. Is this code going to be deprecated or go out of maintenance since it
   is not used? I do not even see test cases for these except for
   jni/Address.java and jni/Socket.java
   4. Does this work well on Linux too?
   5. Are there any performance considerations, gotchas etc - considering
   that this is an internal module with "light" documentation?


For the curious, here is the test code I wrote (CC BY-SA)
https://gist.github.com/2c3acac03cf954f68001. I would be overjoyed if this
was incorporated into the unit tests for Tomcat Native.

Thanks,
Ashwin Jayaprakash (http://www.ashwinjayaprakash.com)

Re: [VOTE] Grant Olivier Lamy commit karma to the Tomcat repo (for the Maven plugin)

[Peter Roßbach]

+1
Peter

Am 25.08.2011 um 16:44 schrieb Mark Thomas:

> Subject says it all.
> 
> Here is my +1 to start this off.
> 
> Mark
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