RFR: 8276764: Enable deterministic file content ordering for Jar and Jmod

Wed Nov 17 19:19:56 UTC 2021

On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:47:34 GMT, Andrew Leonard <aleonard at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Both jar and jmod utilise java.io file operations whose methods define no ordering of the return file lists, and in fact rely on OS query file ordering, which can differ by underlying OS architecture.
> This PR adds sort processing to the creation of such jar's and jmod's to enable a deterministic content ordering.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Leonard <anleonar at redhat.com>

Just to verify, this test jar had 16000 files in a single directory? Since having 100 files in 160 directories would not have the same impact, right?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6395