Backport request for JDK-8034773

[Jaikiran Pai]

Thank you Christoph.

-Jaikiran

On 28/10/19 6:26 PM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
> Hi Jaikiran,
>
> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/ is the correct one. (Though the same patch would probably apply to jdk8u...)
>
> /Christoph
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jaikiran Pai <jai.forums2013 at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Montag, 28. Oktober 2019 11:58
>> To: Langer, Christoph <christoph.langer at sap.com>; jdk8u-
>> dev at openjdk.java.net
>> Subject: Re: Backport request for JDK-8034773
>>
>> Thank you for those details, Christoph.
>>
>> I'll start preparing the patch. Which of the following 2 repos is the
>> correct one to patch and propose a RFR against:
>>
>> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u/
>>
>> https://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8u/jdk8u-dev/
>>
>> -Jaikiran
>>
>> On 28/10/19 4:16 PM, Langer, Christoph wrote:
>>> Hi Jaikiran,
>>>
>>> this fix is definitely a good candidate for a backport to jdk8u.
>>>
>>> What you should do now is to extract the patch and apply it to 8u. It'll
>> probably need some reshuffling and further adaptations. Once you have it,
>> please post an RFR webrev on this mailing list and add the jdk8u-fix-request
>> label to the bug with a comment, referring to the mailing list's review thread.
>>> Cheers
>>> Christoph
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: jdk8u-dev <jdk8u-dev-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
>>>> Jaikiran Pai
>>>> Sent: Montag, 28. Oktober 2019 07:09
>>>> To: jdk8u-dev at openjdk.java.net
>>>> Subject: Backport request for JDK-8034773
>>>>
>>>> One of the projects I watch, has run into an issue[1] which has been
>>>> fixed in Java 9+. The fix for Java 9+ went in as part of this issue[2].
>>>> The related commit for it is [3] and includes more than one bug fix. The
>>>> commit itself is relatively small and has a testcase included.
>>>>
>>>> I am new to the backport request process. What would be the best way
>>>> forward to have this change backported to OpenJDK 8? Should I be raising
>>>> a backport request in the JBS (I've "author" role, so can do that if
>>>> that's necessary)?
>>>>
>>>> Right now, the issue has been worked around[4] in the project where we
>>>> hit it. But I would like to avoid more such changes all over the place,
>>>> by having this fixed in OpenJDK itself.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8233015
>>>>
>>>> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8034773
>>>>
>>>> [3] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/rev/6f00367ab8e1
>>>>
>>>> [4] https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/pull/4865
>>>>
>>>> -Jaikiran
>>>>
>>>>