Request for review: 8004495: [parfait] False positive Buffer overflow in hotspot/src/os/linux/vm/os_linux.cpp
Mikael Vidstedt
mikael.vidstedt at oracle.com
Tue Feb 19 12:35:28 PST 2013
Tim,
Thanks for verifying!
Cheers,
Mikael
On 2013-02-19 11:23, Tim Bell wrote:
> On 02/19/13 10:29, harold seigel wrote:
>> I don't know what happens if the latest/greatest JDK is run on an old
>> Linux kernel. Perhaps it would complain about missing or mismatched
>> shared libraries during activation?
>
> That is exactly what happens. For example, trying to run the latest
> promoted JDK8 on a RedHat 2.1 system (Kernel version 2.4.9) will give
> you:
>
> % uname -a
> Linux sc11136055 2.4.9-e.40enterprise #1 SMP Thu Apr 8 16:43:01 EDT
> 2004 i686 unknown
>
> % /java/re/jdk/8/promoted/latest/binaries/linux-i586/bin/java -version
> /java/re/jdk/8/promoted/latest/binaries/linux-i586/bin/java:
> /lib/i686/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.3' not found (required by
> /.automount/scanas404.us.oracle.com/root/export/java-re/jdk/8/ea/b77/binaries/linux-i586/bin/../jre/lib/i386/jli/libjli.so)
>
>
>
> Tim
>
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