On Sat, 13 Sep 2025 07:10:42 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which addresses the issue noted in 
> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8367597? 
> 
> As noted in that issue, on certain occasions, during shutdown of the JVM, the 
> logging in `Runtime.exit()` generates a `NullPointerException`. The issue is 
> due to the JVM not being fully initialized when (concurrently) the signal 
> handler thread calls the `Runtime.exit()` code which then attempts to log a 
> message.
> 
> The commit in this PR skips the logging from `Runtime.exit()` if the JVM 
> isn't fully initialized at that point in time. I've manually verified that 
> this change indeed addresses the issue by running the same tests on the hosts 
> where this was previously failing. No new regressions tests have been 
> introduced given the nature of the issue.
> 
> tier1 testing with this change completed without any related issues and 
> additional tier testing is currently in progress.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 0bc37059
Author:    Jaikiran Pai <[email protected]>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/0bc3705948b1bb8f327dc48c4dbd85d22d66f036
Stats:     5 lines in 1 file changed: 2 ins; 0 del; 3 mod

8367597: Runtime.exit logging failed: Cannot invoke 
"java.lang.Module.getClassLoader()" because "m" is null

Reviewed-by: alanb, rriggs

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27270

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