There was a fair degree of backporting of zip timestamp code, but the bugfix to (signed vs unsigned) didn't make it. The corner cases that aren't handled are not-handled consistently.
On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > On 03/07/2017 20:05, Simon Spero wrote: > >> : >> >> It is strange that this wasn't backported to jdk8u, since other changes to >> zip rom around the same time are present. Also, this fix doesn't seem to >> be mentioned in JIRA or the release notes. >> >> There were API changes as part of this update so not appropriate to > backport. More generally, the zip code has changed significantly in JDK 9 > to replace native implementation. I think the highest priority is to make > sure that there aren't any corner cases that were handled in 8 but not > handled in 9. > > -Alan >
