[8u] RFR 6424123: JVM crashes on failed 'strdup' call

[Zhengyu Gu]

Hi Andrew,

> I already backported this:
> 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-April/011526.html
> 
> In the end, we decided not to go ahead with this and workaround it for
> JDK-8076475:
> 
> https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2020-April/011539.html

At that time, this was *not* a parity backport, but now, it is. Should 
we reconsider it?

Thanks,

-Zhengyu

> 
> Thanks,
>