[8u-dev] RFR (S): JDK-8194653: Deadlock involving FileSystems.getDefault and System.loadLibrary call

[Alan Bateman]

On 23/04/2019 15:47, Sciampacone, Ryan wrote:
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> - The problem doesn't exist at jdk9+ because the classes causing this problem get loaded and initialized as part of the initialization sequence "naturally" (ie: I see no indication that they are loaded to solve this specific problem).  I agree that jdk8 is unlikely to have dramatic changes in initialization moving forward, but putting it as part of (to me) the more streamlined create_vm() function made sense from a "safety" perspective as it felt more controlled and unlikely to be perturbed by any other change in the initialization code flow (class library or vm).
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True for JDK 9 but there has been significant changes since than and the 
file system is not eagerly loaded since JDK 10 or 11. So I think it 
needs further investigation to see if we have a potential issue in the 
main line or not.

-Alan