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It's a bug in macOS and it breaks POSIX compliance. Oracle can develop a workaround but Apple should fix it in their next update.

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bug? POSIX compliance? How?

When a kernel update breaks all JVM versions starting from Java 8, the kernel devs fucked up. Even worse when the breaking change is in the final production release only and not the beta release. Completely obvious that this is a bug.

Segmentation fault should trigger SIGSEV, not SIGKILL. They changed the behaviour of the kernel which broke the JVM and any other applications that are designed according to the POSIX standards. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V...

right, seems like sort of a no brainer that if a minor version bump of an OS completely breaks JDK8, that’s on the OS developer.

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