Backport of 8077608

[Seán Coffey]

Hi Stuart,

it certainly makes sense to backport such testing gains. Hopefully, 
someone from the Oracle hotspot team can test and sponsor your patch on 
JPRT (internal test/build system) before it's approved for pushing to 
jdk8u-dev forest.

regards,
Sean.


On 30/05/2017 16:19, Stuart Monteith wrote:
> Hello,
>      The fix in 8077608 was never backported to jdk8u. There are a
> number of testcases that spawn their own java processes that then fail
> to run as they do not have the correct classpath when run under JTReg
> with "-agentvm".
>
> The patch for jdk9 applies almost cleanly to jdk8u:
>
> ]http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2015-April/017937.html
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8077608
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/hotspot/rev/af2a1e9f08f3
>
> Is there any reason why this wasn't backported? If need be, I can
> produce test and make a patch available.
>
> BR,
>     Stuart