RFR: JDK-8275703: System.loadLibrary fails on Big Sur for libraries hidden from filesystem

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:51:29 GMT, Mandy Chung <mchung at openjdk.org> wrote:

> On, macOS 11.x, system libraries are loaded from dynamic linker cache.  The libraries are no longer present on the filesystem.   `NativeLibraries::loadLibrary` checks for the file existence before calling `JVM_LoadLibrary`.   Such check no longer applies on Big Sur.   This proposes that on macOS >= 11, it will skip the file existence check and attempt to load a library for each path from java.library.path and system library path.

src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/loader/NativeLibraries.java line 166:

> 164:                                 return null;
> 165:                             }
> 166:                             return file.getCanonicalPath();

I think a `!file.exists()` check would still be needed here to handle the case when `loadLibraryOnlyIfPresent` is `false`, isn't it?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/6127