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

[Andrew Hughes]

On 08/07/2020 18:56, Zhengyu Gu wrote:
> 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,
>>
> 

To my mind, that doesn't really change anything from a technical
standpoint, but I'll leave the final say to Andrew Haley.

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

Senior Free Java Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com)

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