Backport of 8077608

[David Holmes]

Stuart,

Please produce the patch and send to hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net for 
review, then it can go through the 8u approval process.

Thanks,
David

On 31/05/2017 1:35 AM, Seán Coffey wrote:
> 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
>