8252661: Change SafepointMechanism terminology to talk less about "blocking"

[fisk]

Migrating this review from the mailing list into a pull request. So far, the favourite terminology is to talk about "process", but without "operation".

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Issue

• JDK-8252661: Change SafepointMechanism terminology to talk less about "blocking"

Reviewers

• Robbin Ehn (@robehn - Reviewer)
• Aleksey Shipilev (@shipilev - Reviewer)
• dholmes - Reviewer ⚠️ Added manually

Download

$ git fetch https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk pull/54/head:pull/54
$ git checkout pull/54

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/review

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/reviewer shade

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[shipilev]

Okay, I am somewhat confused how Skara is supposed to register my review here. Reviewed!

[robehn]

I think we can do better than "process".
I can't think anything now, so ship it.

Thanks

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8252661: Change SafepointMechanism terminology to talk less about "blocking"

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[fisk]

Thanks for the reviews, @shipilev and @robehn. I'll add David Holmes as reviewer too, as the final name suggestion was his.

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