RFR (S): 7129724: Fix location of core file in dump message on macosx

[David Holmes]

Hi Dmitry,

On 26/06/2012 6:30 PM, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
> Mikael,
>
> Stepping aside MAC OS related changes, this code doesn't
> respect OS settings of coredump pattern and location.

This CR was simply trying to address an inaccurate error message 
regarding the "default location" for core files. It seems on OSX they 
are always in /cores/.

> So is it better to create os::coredump_pattern() function
> and change it to handle /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
> under Linux as well as MAC OS specific things?

This has been raised in the past. The VM may not have a way of readily 
determining the actual core location if it has been set via coreadm or 
other equivalent functionality in the OS. You can always file a RFE to 
try and do this, but it is out of scope for this CR.

David
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> -Dmitry
>
>
> On 2012-06-26 02:22, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
>>
>> If HotSpot crashes the dump message prints the default location of the
>> generated core file. On other "posix" like OSes the path is normally
>> <cwd>/core or core.<pid>, but on macosx the cores always end up in
>> /cores/core.<pid>. This change aims to reflect that. Verified manually
>> on Linux and macosx. Passes JPRT.
>>
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mikael/7129724/webrev.00
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mikael
>>
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