It looks like a completely messed this up by not pushing the hotspot parts 
first and now I have broken the build in jdk9-dev. 

Should I push an anti-delta of the patch? I can prepare a review of it in a 
moment.

/Staffan

On 25 apr 2014, at 17:16, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com> wrote:

> Thanks Keith!
> 
> As far as I can tell there was no good reason for making the bug 
> Confidential, but I can’t undo it. Sorry about that.
> 
> /Staffan
> 
> On 25 apr 2014, at 17:02, Keith McGuigan <kmcgui...@twitter.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Staffan - 
>> 
>> It looks good to me.  Why is the bug marked "closed" though?
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com> 
>> wrote:
>> Still looking for a Review of this change.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
>> 
>> On 7 apr 2014, at 21:19, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > And the links:
>> >
>> > bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8033104
>> > webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8033104/webrev.00/
>> >
>> > Sorry about that,
>> > /Staffan
>> >
>> > On 7 apr 2014, at 20:08, Staffan Larsen <staffan.lar...@oracle.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> The problem here is that the code for finding local VMs is not looking 
>> >> for the data in the correct place.
>> >>
>> >> When a JVM is started it will create the perf-data file in a 
>> >> user-specific directory inside /tmp (*). The code in the JDK 
>> >> (PerfDataFile.java) that lists all active JVMs looks for the 
>> >> user-specific directory inside java.io.tmpdir. If a user sets 
>> >> -Djava.io.tmpdir on the command line, the code in PerfDataFile will look 
>> >> in the wrong place.
>> >>
>> >> (*) It's a little bit more complex. /tmp is used on Linux and Solaris. On 
>> >> OS X and Windows, there are user-specific temp directories that should be 
>> >> used, and so the VM queries the OS for these paths.
>> >>
>> >> The solution would be for PerfDataFile to use the same locations as the 
>> >> VM creates them in. The simplest way to guarantee that the same directory 
>> >> is used is to ask the VM to provide the location. Thus I have introduced 
>> >> a new JVM_ function: JVM_GetTemporaryDirectory.
>> >>
>> >> (Since this change touches both hotspot and jdk repos I will submit the 
>> >> hotspot part first under a different bug id (provided that the review 
>> >> goes well)).
>> >>
>> >> The newly added test starts two VM with all possible combinations of 
>> >> setting and not setting java.io.tmpdir to verify that the mechanism is 
>> >> indeed not looking at that variable. I also removed an if-statement in 
>> >> BasicTests.java which would have found this issue a long time ago had it 
>> >> not been there.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks,
>> >> /Staffan
>> >
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Keith McGuigan
>> @kamggg
>> kmcgui...@twitter.com
> 

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