RFR: 8293806: JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS picked up twice if LD_LIBRARY_PATH is set

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.org
Tue Sep 27 06:04:21 UTC 2022


On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 18:15:17 GMT, Dmitry Samersoff <dsamersoff at openjdk.org> wrote:

> If the user has set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to use a particular libjvm.so, options from the JDK_JAVA_OPTIONS environment variable are picked up twice.
> 
> If an option cannot be accepted twice (e.g., -agentlib), the application fails to start.
> 
> The same happens on operating systems that doesn't support $RPATH/$ORIGIN and always have to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH and re-exec the launcher.
> 
> The fix adds one additional argument - orig_argv to JLI_Launch() and use it in on relaunch in execv() call.
> 
> All relevant jtreg tests are passed.

Sorry @dsamersoff but I don't understand how this arises - can you explain in more detail please? I'm not seeing the connection between setting `LD_LIBRARY_PATH` and reading an env var twice. Thanks

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10430


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