RFR: 8343839: Detect patched modules and abort run-time image link early [v3]

[Severin Gehwolf]

On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 19:05:10 GMT, Mandy Chung <mchung at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > The long-term plan would be to not need this at all. If we were to use the jrt FS throughout in JRTArchive I think module patches won't matter and wouldn't populate to the resulting image and this could get removed. But that would be for another enhancement. Thoughts?
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> IMO, I don't think it's worth putting the effort to support that as running jlink on a patched runtime should be very rare corner case.

Thanks for the feedback. I've filed https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8345184 anyway as it might allow us to remove some of the special cases.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22037#issuecomment-2514752020