RFR: 8374343: Fix SIGSEGV when lib/modules is unreadable

[Boris Ulasevich]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 23:23:08 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

> So a customer with this unexpected configuration may still not be happy about what they observe happen.

I understand your concern, but the VM should not crash (producing a coredump, triggering various monitoring systems, etc.) when it can just shut down the same way as for other initialization errors -- especially if the crash can be prevented by such a small fix. Do you see a better solution?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28982#issuecomment-3720283448