RFR: 8340383: VM issues warning failure to find kernel32.dll on Windows nanoserver [v3]

[George Adams]

On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 09:52:24 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> George Adams has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Update os_windows.cpp
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> src/hotspot/os/windows/os_windows.cpp line 4104:
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>> 4102: 
>> 4103:   // Open the registry key
>> 4104:   if (RegOpenKeyExA(HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, subKey, 0, KEY_READ, &hKey) != ERROR_SUCCESS) {
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> Is this a protected key or should we generally expect reading it to always succeed?

it is a protected key but we're only opening it in read mode. I've tested this with non-elevated users and it seems to run okay

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21070#discussion_r1771111121