I support this change and commented on the bug. Too late for jdk9, but should go into a jdk9 update.
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Liam Miller-Cushon <cus...@google.com> wrote: > Hello, > > While testing JDK 9 we noticed that zip archives containing zeroed-out > dates are no longer accepted. These archives are arguably invalid, but some > zip implementations produce them and there's a significant number of them > in the wild. I filed a bug with more details: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8184940 > > Would you consider relaxing the JDK 9 behaviour to continue to handle > zeroed-out dates, to avoid a breaking change and ensure it can read the > same legacy zip and jar files as earlier releases? > > Thanks, > Liam >
