On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 13:22:43 GMT, Kieran Farrell <[email protected]> wrote:

>> This patch adds a new jcmd diagnostic command, `VM.show_settings`, to make 
>> the existing -`XshowSettings` output available from a running VM. The 
>> command accepts the same sections as`XshowSettings` (all, vm, properties, 
>> locale, security, system, security:all, security:properties, 
>> security:providers, security:tls). 
>> 
>> HotSpot registers the new diagnostic command, validates the requested 
>> section, then calls into `sun.launcher.LauncherHelper` to reuse the existing 
>> show settings formatting and return the result as bytes for the jcmd stream. 
>> The VM settings path also passes hotspots `InitialHeapSize`, `MaxHeapSize`, 
>> and Java thread stack size into the Java helper. A new jcmd test covers VM, 
>> properties, security TLS, and invalid-input output.
>> 
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>
> Kieran Farrell has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   extend test coverage and code clean up

src/hotspot/share/services/diagnosticCommand.cpp line 487:

> 485:       strcmp(sec, "security:providers") != 0 &&
> 486:       strcmp(sec, "security:tls") != 0 &&
> 487:       strcmp(sec, "system") != 0) {

Drive by comment:

`-XshowSettings:system` is Linux only. Should this be accounted for here? On 
non-Linux it falls back to "all".

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31742#discussion_r3519140346

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