[8u60] request for approval: 8081674: EmptyStackException at startup if running with extended or unsupported charset

[Volker Simonis]

Hi Rob,

thanks a lot for the fast approval!

I thought about writing a test, but unfortunately that's not so easy.

The problem is that it is not sufficient to just set an extended or
unsupported locale trough the LANG environment variable. In order to
reproduce the problem, this locale has to be really installed (because
the VM doesn't query LANG directly but instead calls
'nl_langinfo(CODESET)' which falls back to ASCII or UTF8 if the locale
specified in LANG isn't available).

Regards,
Volker


On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 3:10 PM, Rob McKenna <rob.mckenna at oracle.com> wrote:
> Approved. Please add an appropriate noreg label to the bug. (actually, this
> looks like it could be straightforward to reproduce, was a test considered?)
>
>         -Rob
>
>
> On 15/06/15 14:04, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> could you please approve the downport of the following fix to
>> jdk8u/dev/jdk:
>>
>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8081674
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2015/8081674.jdk8/
>> Review:
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-June/034099.html
>> URL: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/rev/a44ca223cf2f
>>
>> The change for jdk8 is the same like for jdk9 except the new file
>> structure of jdk9.
>>
>> Thank you and best regards,
>> Volker
>>
>