Hello, Requesting approval for The bug: http://jbs.oracle.com/bugs/browse/JDK-8006574 The patch went in cleanly into 7u-dev and the patch is at: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/ea8f3ca83501 Discussions: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2013-January/014148.html Thanks in advance Kumar