RFR (S): 8238676: jni crashes on accessing it from process exit hook

[David Holmes]

Any takers?

David

On 19/02/2020 12:04 pm, David Holmes wrote:
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8238676
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dholmes/8238676/webrev/
> 
> If an application tries to use JNI from an atexit handler, the attempt 
> can't succeed (the VM has already logically terminated) but it should 
> not crash. The JNI Invocation API code was missing some checks in places 
> and wasn't aware of the possibility of trying to make calls from the 
> VMThread.
> 
> Testing:
>   - new test added for the JNI Invocation API
>   - tiers 1-3
> 
> Thanks,
> David