Backport request for JDK-8034249

[serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com]

Hi Gleb,

Thank you for the reply.
It is good enough.

Thanks,
Serguei


On 1/13/17 01:45, Gleb Smirnov wrote:
> Hi Serguei,
>
> Thanks for getting back to me. If I correctly understand what you mean by "What
> tool is it for?", then the tool is an APM called Plumbr [1]. We use JVMTI to
> capture some evidence required for root cause analysis. It's a shame when this
> leads to JVM crashing.
>
> Please correct me if you asked for something different.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Gleb Smirnov
>
> [1] https://plumbr.eu/how-plumbr-works
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 06:18 serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com
> <serguei.spitsyn at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Hi Gleb,
>>
>> I do not see big problems to backport  it to the jdk8 yet.
>> But let me check the jdk8 repository first.
>> What tool is it for?
>> Just better to have this info for backport justification.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Serguei
>>
>>
>> On 1/12/17 10:40, Gleb Smirnov wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We have a java agent that uses JVMTI's GetStackTrace.
>>> As can be seen in [1], there is an issue that may cause
>>> the JVM to crash when it is invoked. The issue was fixed
>>> for jdk9 in 2014, but as far as I can tell, it was not
>>> backported to jdk8. We have quite a few customer JVMs
>>> crashing because of this.
>>>
>>> Is there any particular reason for not backporting?
>>> If not, would anyone be so kind as to do it? Can I
>>> help the effort in any way?
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Gleb Smirnov
>>>
>>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034249