RFR: 8337966: (fs) Files.readAttributes fails with Operation not permitted on older docker releases

[Alexey Bakhtin]

On Fri, 30 Aug 2024 10:48:21 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> > I think it is some kind of regression for old Docker versions, but it could be easily fixed. I understand there is a workaround with an updated seccomp profile, but it is not easy to do in some environments.
>>> 
>>> Is this not possible on the problematic system(s)?
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>> According to our customer, it is problematic. This is a reason for proposing a fix in OpenJDK.
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>> According to our customer, it is problematic. This is a reason for proposing a fix in OpenJDK.
> 
> @bplb and I discussed this yesterday and agreed that the proposal here isn't the right thing for main line. There will be other opinions but I think your options are:
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> - Use a newer release of docker and/or the seccomp configuration where this is fixed. You mentioned that it was fixed in v19 which appears to have been released in 2019.
> - Request to jdk update maintainers to backout JDK-8338696 from 17u and 21u.
> - Propose the change to 17u and 21u to allow it work in seccomp config that blocks this sys call.

Hi @AlanBateman , @bplb 
Thank you very much for your review and suggestions. I'll try to propose the changes to 21u and 17u

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20484#issuecomment-2321939318