Re: JDK-8177064: jcmd help command should not require the process identification

2019-04-12 Thread David Holmes
On 12/04/2019 9:47 pm, Gary Adams wrote: On 4/11/19, 8:16 PM, David Holmes wrote: Hi Gary, On 12/04/2019 4:24 am, Gary Adams wrote: Two years ago a request was made to allow     jcmd help to be interpretted as a request for help from the current jcmd process rather than requiring a separate

Re: JDK-8177064: jcmd help command should not require the process identification

2019-04-12 Thread Gary Adams
On 4/11/19, 8:16 PM, David Holmes wrote: Hi Gary, On 12/04/2019 4:24 am, Gary Adams wrote: Two years ago a request was made to allow jcmd help to be interpretted as a request for help from the current jcmd process rather than requiring a separate target process to be involved. Some attem

Re: JDK-8177064: jcmd help command should not require the process identification

2019-04-11 Thread David Holmes
Hi Gary, On 12/04/2019 4:24 am, Gary Adams wrote: Two years ago a request was made to allow    jcmd help to be interpretted as a request for help from the current jcmd process rather than requiring a separate target process to be involved. Some attempts were made to close the issue, because

Re: JDK-8177064: jcmd help command should not require the process identification

2019-04-11 Thread Thomas Stüfe
Hi Gary, I am not sure this makes sense. jcmd can be used to access wildly different VMs with different command sets, including Vendor-specific commands (we have additional commands in the SapMachine, for instance). Also, jcmd is up- and downward compatible, and you can run older jcmd versions aga

JDK-8177064: jcmd help command should not require the process identification

2019-04-11 Thread Gary Adams
Two years ago a request was made to allow jcmd help to be interpretted as a request for help from the current jcmd process rather than requiring a separate target process to be involved. Some attempts were made to close the issue, because the command was not documented to work that way. It w