JVM (1.8.0_91) crashes in Windows native code

[Alex Kashchenko]

Hi Vinay,

On 06/23/2016 06:56 PM, Vinay Purohit wrote:
> Hello,
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> I'm not sure if this is the right forum for posting an issue we are
> experiencing with JRE 1.8.0_92.
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> The JVM crashes in the Windows native code and generates a log (see
> attachment, hs_err_pid15724.log), but not the usual stack-trace due to
> uncaught exceptions. The root cause is unclear and we haven't figured out a
> consistent way to reproduce the problem, but it appears related to the use
> of the java.io.File class for probing attributes of non-standard files
> (junctions, symbolic links, or use of file names disallowed on Windows due
> to use of special chars, but allowed on other platforms like Mac/Linux).
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> The same Java code and JVM version on Mac OS X (10.10) runs ok, suggesting
> that the problem is Windows-related.
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> I have also created a bug report, JI-9040363. Other versions of the JRE may
> be susceptible as well, but haven't been tested against.
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> Any suggestions or insights would be appreciated.

Thanks for this bugreport. Would you mind posting the details of 
JI-9040363 (it cannot be accessed outside of Oracle) and resending 
hs_err_pid15724.log (inline, or uploading it somewhere - it wasn't come 
through the list)?


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-Alex