RFR: JDK-8115868: 32-bit JVM failed to start from a large network filesystem

[Mikael Gerdin]

Hi Kumar,

On 2015-12-15 16:54, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> Hello,
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> Please review fix for: JDK-8115868
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> The webrev is here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ksrini/8115868/webrev.0/

Since I don't feel qualified to comment on the actual code changes I 
don't consider this a code review but I looked at the diffs and they 
make sense to me.

I have however tested this fix and verified that it resolves the issues 
in the launcher.

/Mikael

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> The background:
> The launcher uses stat(2) to check for the existence of a file,
> unfortunately
> on 32-bit system with large file systems causes the inode storage to
> overflow
> causing the syscall to return EOVERFLOW.
>
> Solution:
> * stat(2)  replaced with access(3), in most cases.
> * jbs is marked noreg-hard hard to replicate the problem
>
> Thanks
> Kumar
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