RFR: JDK-8327769: jcmd GC.heap_dump without options should write to location given by -XX:HeapDumpPath, if set [v2]

[Matthias Baesken]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:08:01 GMT, Kevin Walls <kevinw at openjdk.org> wrote:

>Does dump_to_heapdump_path() not print the ("Dumping heap to %s ...", path) message? 
>That seems important when the user isn't specifying it directly.

The path is already printed, here is an example (the JVM with pid 219447 was started with` -XX:HeapDumpPath=...  `).

images/jdk/bin/jcmd  219447 GC.heap_dump
219447:
Dumping heap to /mydir/test/dumpdir/dydumpfile ...
Heap dump file created [3757116 bytes in 0.046 secs]

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18190#issuecomment-1991554323