On Tue, 5 Jan 2021 03:07:49 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Given that this seems to be a common problem in our code, and likely a very 
> very old problem at that, why has it never been reported before? I'm not 
> questioning the fix except to the extent that I'm questioning our 
> understanding of the problem.

I think it's probably because the errors only happen in very rare cases. For 
example, when a DLL is missing from the JAVA_HOME. For more common cases, such 
as Process_impl.c, the code has been rewritten to use FormatMessageW, which is 
unicode.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1928

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