RFD: What do we do about programs which set sys_paths to null?

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/18/20 2:48 AM, David Holmes wrote:

> This was already addressed in 8u:
> 
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8240521

Sorry, I should have mentioned that.

That's not really a fix, because backing out the patch causes the deadlock
to return. What I'm proposing is a real fix for 11 and 8.

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