Reviewed-by: sla, dholmes

Summary: Create well-known file with effective group of the current process
Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Summary: Backout the fix for 7152031; the real bug to be fixed in jdk repo.
Reviewed-by: michaelm

Summary: Update to use the right path on MacOS X.
Reviewed-by: michaelm, jcoomes, amurillo

Reviewed-by: sla, never

Summary: Change OSThread to use mach thread_t
Reviewed-by: phh, dcubed

Summary: Append "." to java.library.path on MacOS X to ease migration from Apple's Java6 to OpenJDK7.
Reviewed-by: phh, jmelvin, coleenp

Summary: Code cleanup and creating a private decoder for error handler, since it can be triggered from in signal handler, where no lock can be taken
Reviewed-by: dholmes, kamg, acorn, coleenp

Summary: Add CriticalPriority == MaxPriority+1 and enable scheduling class as well as thread priority to change on Solaris.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, dcubed

Summary: Fix gamma launcher on Mac OS X and reconcile test_gamma script on Unix platforms
Reviewed-by: dcubed, ohair, jcoomes, dholmes, ksrini
Contributed-by: james.melvin@oracle.com

Summary: Decoder API changes did not reflect in os_bsd
Reviewed-by: kamg, dcubed

Summary: Made decoder thread-safe
Reviewed-by: coleenp, kamg

Summary: In os::free_memory() use mmap with the same attributes as for the heap space
Reviewed-by: kvn
Contributed-by: NAleksey Ignatenko <aleksey.v.ignatenko@intel.com>

Summary: Revamp class os's socket method formal args to match socket.h, insert casts in appropriate places, and copyin-copyout int*'s that s/b socklen_t*'s in jvm.cpp.
Reviewed-by: coleenp, dholmes
Contributed-by: erik.gahlin@oracle.com, rickard.backman@oracle.com, nils.loodin@oracle.com, markus.gronlund@oracle.com

Summary: Replaces calls to os::javaTimeMillis(), which does not (and cannot) guarantee monotonicity, in GC code to an equivalent expression that uses os::javaTimeNanos(). os::javaTimeNanos is guaranteed monotonically non-decreasing if the underlying platform provides a monotonic time source. Changes in OS files are to make use of the newly defined constants in globalDefinitions.hpp.
Reviewed-by: dholmes, ysr

Reviewed-by: dholmes, dsamersoff
Contributed-by: NChris Hegarty <chris.hegarty@oracle.com>

Summary: Integrate bsd-port/hotspot and macosx-port/hotspot changes as of 2011.09.29.
Reviewed-by: kvn, dholmes, never, phh
Contributed-by: NChristos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Kurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Alexander Strange &lt;astrange@apple.com&gt;, Mike Swingler &lt;swingler@apple.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Victor Hernandez &lt;vhernandez@apple.com&gt;, Pratik Solanki <psolanki@apple.com>

Reviewed-by: kvn, twisti, jrose
Contributed-by: NKurt Miller &lt;kurt@intricatesoftware.com&gt;, Greg Lewis &lt;glewis@eyesbeyond.com&gt;, Jung-uk Kim &lt;jkim@freebsd.org&gt;, Christos Zoulas &lt;christos@zoulas.com&gt;, Landon Fuller &lt;landonf@plausible.coop&gt;, The FreeBSD Foundation &lt;board@freebsdfoundation.org&gt;, Michael Franz &lt;mvfranz@gmail.com&gt;, Roger Hoover &lt;rhoover@apple.com&gt;, Alexander Strange <astrange@apple.com>