Hi, Please approve a backport of 8066397 to 8u40. Review in 9 here: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2014-December/029996.html Changes apply cleanly to 8udev when shuffled from 9: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/0761cc66b983 Paul.