RFR: JDK-8227021: VM fails if any sun.boot.library.path paths are longer than JVM_MAXPATHLEN

[David Holmes]

On 31/07/2019 7:01 pm, Adam Farley8 wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Reviewers requested for the change below.
> 
> @David - Agreed. Would you be prepared to sponsor the change?

Sure I can sponsor once there is another reviewer.

BTW could have dropped serviceability-dev as this no longer has any 
serviceability changes in it. :)

Cheers,
David

> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8227021
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~afarley/8227021.2/webrev/
> 
> Best Regards
> 
> Adam Farley
> IBM Runtimes
> 
> P.S. Remembered to add the links this time. :)
> 
> 
> David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote on 30/07/2019 03:37:53:
> 
>> From: David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
>> To: Adam Farley8 <adam.farley at uk.ibm.com>
>> Cc: hotspot-dev at openjdk.java.net,  serviceability-dev
>> <serviceability-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>> Date: 30/07/2019 03:38
>> Subject: Re: RFR: JDK-8227021:  VM fails if any sun.boot.library.path
>> paths are longer than JVM_MAXPATHLEN
>> 
>> Hi Adam,
>> 
>> On 25/07/2019 3:57 am, Adam Farley8 wrote:
>> > Hi David,
>> > 
>> > Welcome back. :)
>> 
>> Thanks. Sorry for the delay in getting back to this.
>> 
>> I like .v2 as it is much simpler (notwithstanding freeing the already
>> allocated arrays adds some complexity - thanks for fixing that).
>> 
>> I'm still not sure we can't optimise things better for unchangeable
>> properties like the boot libary path, but that's another RFE.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> David
>> 
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