[jdk8u-dev] Withdrawn: 8288483: JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS are silently truncated if they exceed 1024 bytes

[duke]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:34:51 GMT, Dmitry Samersoff <dsamersoff at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS environment variable is used to pass additional JVM arguments.
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> The current implementation in jdk8 has an internal limit on the length of the option variable (1024 bytes) and the number of options (64).
> 
> A longer variable will be silently truncated and some options will be lost or the VM will exist with an unrecognized option error.
> 
> The fix is not a direct backport of the changes in the later JDKs, but I kept the code as close as possible to what we have in the latest jdk.
> 
> It's partial backport of relevant changes from JDK-8135195, JDK-8074895, JDK-8061999

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk8u-dev/pull/74