RFR(XS): 8151987: jexec should be executable

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Mar 16 11:14:01 UTC 2016


On 16/03/2016 11:08, Volker Simonis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can I please have a review for the following small fix:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2016/8151987/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8151987
>
> 'jexec' is currently not executable in the created images (i.e.
> images/{jdk,jre}/lib/jexec.
>
> There is currently a special handling in ImageBuilder for
> 'jspawnhelper' which apparently had the same problem.
>
Volker - this patches the temporary image builder that we have in JDK 9. 
This will be go away, to be replaced by jlink, when we bring the module 
system into JDK 9. This will hopefully be next week.

-Alan.



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