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

[Rob McKenna]

Ah righto. Thanks Volker,

	-Rob

On 15/06/15 14:28, Volker Simonis wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>