RFR: 8352489: Relax jspawnhelper version checks to informative
Alan Bateman
alanb at openjdk.org
Thu Mar 20 10:12:08 UTC 2025
On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:52:02 GMT, Aleksey Shipilev <shade at openjdk.org> wrote:
> See the bug for rationale.
>
> This goal for this improvement is to be easily backportable, so we can catch up with update releases. As such, it does a few borderline-trivial changes, and _does not_ change the jspawnhelper protocol. So the overwrite of `jspawnhelper` with this new version would be "compatible" in a very weak sense of the word.
>
> Additional testing:
> - [x] Linux x86_64 server fastdebug, `java/lang/ProcessBuilder`
Something is very broken if the JDK is being overridden while in use. So I don't think I agree that relaxing the check is the right thing to do, it's not fixing the real issue.
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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24127#issuecomment-2739830227
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