RFR: 8015666: test/tools/pack200/TimeStamp.java failing (original) (raw)

Kumar Srinivasan kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com
Thu Jun 27 17:04:25 UTC 2013

Hi Sherman,

I started looking at this, my initial comment, the Unpacker.unpack does not close its output and we allow multiple pack files to be concatenated, I am assuming out.finish() will allow further jar files to be appended ? or would this cause a problem ?

Kumar

Hi,

The zip time related changes[1] I pushed back last month appears to have the compatibility risk of breaking existing code. The main idea in that changeset is to use the more accurate and timezone insensitive utc time stored in the extra field for the ZipEntry.set/getTime() if possible. However it turns out the reality is that the code out there might have already had some interesting workaround/hack solution to workaround the problem that the time stamp stored in the "standard' zip entry header is a MS-DOS standard date/time, which is a "local date/time" and sensitive to timezone, in which, if the zip is archived in time zone A (our implementation converts the "java" time to dos time by using the default tz A) and then transferred/un-archived in a different zone B (use default tz B to convert back to java time), we have a time stamp mess up. The "workaround" from pack200 for this issue when pack/unpacking a jar file is to "specify/recommend/suggest" in its spec that the "time zone" in a jar file entry is assumed to be "UTC", so the pack/unpack200 implementation set the "default time" to utc before the pack/unpack and set it back to the original after that. It worked "perfectly" for a roundtrip pack/unpacking, until the changeset [2], in which ZipEntry.getTime() (packing) returns a real utc time and the following ZipEntry.setTime() (unpacking), then mess up the MS-DOS date/time entry, this is the root cause of this regression. Given the facts that (1) there are actually two real physical time stamps in a zip file header, one is in the date/time fields, which is MS-DOS-local-date/time-with-2- seconds-granularity , one is in the extra data field, which is UTC-1-second -granularity (2) and there are applications over there that have dependency on the MS-DOS date/time stamp. I'm proposing the following approach to add the functionality of supporting the "utc-date/time-with-1-second granularity" and keep the old behavior of the get/setTime() of the ZipEntry. (1) keep the time/setTime()/getTime() for the MS-DOS standard date/time. To set via the old setTime() will only store the time into zip's standard date/time field, which is in MS-DOS date/time. And getTime() only returns the date/time from that field, when read from the zip file/stream. (2) add mtime/set/getLastModifiedTime() to work on the UTC time fields, and the last modified time set via the new method will also set the "time", and the getLastModifiedTime() also returns the "time", if the UTC time stamp fields are not set in the zip file header. The idea is that for the new application, the recommendation is to use ZipEntry.set/getLastModifiedTime() for better/correct time stamp, but the existing apps keep the same behavior. (3) jar and ZipOutputStream are updated to use the set/getLastModifiedTime(). (4) Pack/unpack continues to use the set/getTime(), so the current workaround continues work. I will leave this to Kuma to decide how it should be handled going forward. (there are two facts need to be considered here, a) the existing jar file might not have the utc time instored, and b) all "extra" data are wiped out during the pack/unpacking process) (5) additionally add another pair of atime/get/setLastAccessTime and ctime/get/setCreationTime(). (6) The newly added 3 pairs of the m/a/ctime get/set methods use the "new" nio FileTime, instead of the "long". This may add some additional cost of conversion when working with them, but may also help improve the performance if the time stamps are directly from nio file system when get/set XYZTime. Good/bad? http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/8015666/webrev/ Comment, option and suggestion are appreciated. -Sherman [1] http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/rev/90df6756406f

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