Behavior change in the jar tool JDK11 vs JDK8.

[Alan Bateman]

On 14/03/2022 11:48, Pasam Soujanya1 wrote:
> There is a significant difference in the way the JAR tool (starting JDK11) seems to be responding to target files that are not present , when compared to JDK8. With JDK 8, the jar tool just reports about target files that are absent, and creates the jar file with whatever targets are available.
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> With JDK8, If I try to create a jar file with one existing file and another invalid file name I can see achieve getting created with the file that exists. Only the warning seems to be printed for the target that doesn't exists:
Can you check the exit code (echo $?)? There was a bug in JDK 8/older 
releases with it leaving the temporary file behind when exiting with an 
error, I suspect this is what you are seeing. This changed in JDK 9 to 
cleanup when exiting with an error.

-Alan.