RFR: 8279366: CDS should allow alternative locations for JAR files in classpath [v4]

[Coleen Phillimore]

On Wed, 19 Oct 2022 16:36:56 GMT, Calvin Cheung <ccheung at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this RFE for allowing alternative locations for jar files in the app classpath during runtime.
>> 
>> During dump time, the longest common prefix of the app classpath will be stored in the CDS archive header. During runtime, existing checks of the app classpath will be performed first. Upon failure, the longest common prefix of the runtime app classpath will be computed and another check of the app classpath will be performed ignoring the longest common prefix.
>> 
>> Refer to the [bug report comment](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8279366?focusedCommentId=14509536&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-14509536) for an example.
>> 
>> Passed tiers 1 - 4 testing (including the new tests).
>
> Calvin Cheung has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   merge check_paths_ignoring_common_prefix() into check_paths()

This looks correct to me.

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Marked as reviewed by coleenp (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10615