Proposal: JDK-8231640 - (prop) Canonical property storage

[Alan Bateman]

On 25/08/2021 11:51, Jaikiran Pai wrote:
> :
>
> 1. jdk.internal.vm.VMSupport#serializePropertiesToByteArray - Looking 
> at the implementation in this method and as the name suggests, the 
> Properties is being written out a byte array. This method gets called 
> from native code, from what I can see. I'll need a bit of help on this 
> one to understand whether that usage in the native code would benefit 
> from switching to the new API (when it is introduced) for 
> reproducibility when it comes to this call in 
> VMSupport#serializePropertiesToByteArray.

This is the VM side of the attach mechanism. The API to look at is 
com.sun.tools.attach.VirtualMachine::getSystemProperties. When this 
method is invoked (by a tool) then response is a byte stream of the 
property list (8859-1 encoded). I wouldn't expect you should need to 
touch this one.

-Alan