RFR: 8294689: The SA transported_core.html file needs quite a bit of work [v2]

[Poonam Bajaj]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 18:44:14 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplummer at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The main issues I set out to address are:
>> 
>> - legacy Solaris references can be removed
>> - add help with dealing with Windows core files, most of important of which is use of PATH to find the dlls referenced by the core file.
>> - add help with dealing with macOS core files, most of important of which is using JAVA_HOME or DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH to find the dlls referenced by the core file. 
>> 
>> However, in the end it turned out to be a pretty substantial restructuring and rewrite.
>> 
>> Here are links to the rendered new and old copies of the file:
>> [new file](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/6778a202a855a534754c4b47a6cd99cb912869d3/src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/transported_core.html)
>> [old file](https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/transported_core.html)
>
> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   some additional clarification on linux and macos

src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/transported_core.html line 44:

> 42: OS version and libraries, and also having the same version of the JDK. It also means having
> 43: the OS libraries and JDK installed in the same locations on both machines. However, often this isn't an option,
> 44: and instead you need to include copies of the core dump machine's libraries

Perhaps, it can be rephrased as follows:

... instead you need to bring copies of the libraries and java installation from the machine where the core dump was produced to the debugger machine, and ...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10518