RFR: 8364182: Add jcmd VM.security_properties command [v10]

David Holmes dholmes at openjdk.org
Fri Feb 20 02:25:08 UTC 2026


On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:55:54 GMT, Kieran Farrell <kfarrell at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The goal of this PR is to add a means of exposing security properties at runtime to aid the debugging security related issues/misconfigurations etc. Currently, only initial security properties set at start up can be exposed via the `InitialSecurityProperty` JFR event. 
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>> This patch introduces a new jcmd diagnostic command `VM.properties`, which enables developers to print either the current system properties or security properties of a running Java process via command-line arguments (-system or -security). To avoid clutter within the jcmd command list, the old `VM.system_properties` command is hidden, but not removed so will not break existing usages. The implementation of each is shared to reduce duplication.
>
> Kieran Farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   newline

src/hotspot/share/services/diagnosticCommand.hpp line 99:

> 97: class PrintSecurityPropertiesDCmd : public DCmd {
> 98: public:
> 99:     PrintSecurityPropertiesDCmd(outputStream* output, bool heap) : DCmd(output, heap) { }

Indent should be two on all lines.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29124#discussion_r2831044233



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