RFR: 8220095: Assertion failure when symlink (with different name) is used for lib/modules file

[Lois Foltan]

Looks good Ioi!
Lois

On 3/19/2019 1:12 PM, Ioi Lam wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here's an updated webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iklam/jdk13/8220095_assert_when_lib_modules_is_symblink.v02/ 
>
>
> The reported crash was caused by the ClassLoader::is_modules_image() 
> API. I've
> updated the bug description to analyze all the intended use of this 
> API, and the conclusion
> is to remove this confusing API and replace it with something simpler.
>
> The alternative is to fix the implementation of this API, but that 
> means we have to add lots of
> docs to describe how it works, and who should call it. That doesn't 
> seem to worth it.
>
> Thanks to Jiangli for the initial analysis and the test case.
>
> - Ioi
>