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

[Chris Plummer]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2022 19:38:16 GMT, Poonam Bajaj <poonam at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Chris Plummer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   some additional clarification on linux and macos
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> src/jdk.hotspot.agent/doc/transported_core.html line 73:
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>> 71:  If the debugger machine and core dump machine have identical Windows libraries, then you only
>> 72:  need to point SA to the location of the JDK bin directory. This is done by making sure
>> 73:  the bin directory is included in the <b>PATH</b> environment variable. If the windows
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> The location of jvm.dll (e.g. %Java_Home%\bin\server) should be included in the PATH environment variable. And if I remember correctly, the location of 'windbg' should also be added to PATH - this needs to be tested and confirmed though.

Ok. So you are saying both the bin and bin\server directories have to be in PATH. I'll update for that. I can't verify the need for windbg. I don't have an environment setup for testing this, but Coleen had indicated it wasn't necessary. Are you setup to try it out?

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