On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:35:34 GMT, Chris Plummer <cjplum...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> > > Do we have any apps commonly run as a Windows SYSTEM account which expect > > > to attach to other Java apps run by a different Java version? You're > > > suggesting that will have no impact and agreed it would seem really > > > unusual. 8-) > > > > > > Good Question @kevinjwalls. We are not aware of any customers using attach > > api tools with Java application of different versions. In these cases, we > > recommend upgrading to the latest version. > > It has been a goal to maintain attach compatibility between different > versions of the attaching and attached to JVMs. We've fixed bugs in this area > in the past. For example, there have been changes that caused old versions of > attaching tools like jstack and jcmd to fail when attaching to newer JVMs. > We've gone back and fixed these issues in the past. Note in these cases the > issue had to do with the protocol used to communicate arguments, not the > actual attach itself. I think in the case of this PR we are talking about a > failure locate/identify the target JVM. Thank you @plummercj for sharing your insights. Could you please provide some guidance on how we can maintain compatibility? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20600#issuecomment-2375781969
