Hi all,

I would like to propose a fix for JDK-8319589. This will allow jcmd and jps 
running as root to get the complete list of JVMs running by all users, and to 
attach from root to non-root JVMs.

This change affects macOS, that uses "secure" per-user temporary directories. 
It only affects JVMs running as root, the behavior in non-privileged JVMs 
remains unchanged.

Jcmd and jps rely on LocalVmManager to get the initial list of the local VMs. 
The LocalVmManager uses sun.jvmstat.PlatformSupport to get the list of temp 
directories, where it searches for user's PerfData directory such as 
"hsperfdata_<username\>". In macosx the temp directories are per-user, the temp 
path is returned by confstr(_CS_DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR). The per-user directories 
are mode 700 and so they are read-protected from non-privileged users and can 
be accessed by the owner and the root.

Both jps and jcmd (HotSpotAttachProvider) create MonitoredVm objects, that have 
PerfDataBuffer that performs attachment to the target. Only the attachable VMs 
are listed in jcmd output.

The proposed patch changes the list of directories returned by the 
PlatformSupport#getTemporaryDirectories() in VMs running as root. The list is 
later used in VirtualMachineImpl (jdk.attach). It changes also the way 
mmap_attach_shared() searches for hsperfdata_<username\>/<pid\> files to map 
the shared memory. Mmap_attach_shared() and VirtualMachineImpl (via 
PlatformSupport) list the content of /var/folders, where the temp directories 
are located, more specificly the temp directories are 
/var/folders/<BUCKET\>/<ENCODED_UUID_UID\>/T as hinted in [1]. The full list is 
returned by newly added PlatformSupportImpl#getTemporaryDirectories().

The attaching client's VirtualMachineImpl needs the target process's temp 
directory to find .java<pid\> and create .attach<pid\> files. It uses the list 
returned by PlatformSupportImpl#getTemporaryDirectories() and the ProcessHandle 
of the target process to search for user's PerfData directory, e.g. 
hsperfdata_<username\>, which is in the target process's temp directory, 
exactly where it expects to see the .java<pid\> in return on sending SIGQUIT to 
the target VM.

Mmap_attach_shared() traverses the /var/folders in get_user_tmp_dir() and looks 
for a hsperfdata_<username\> folder. If that folder is found in 
/var/folders/*/*/T, that means the temp folder corresponds to the <username\> 
and to the JVM being attached to.

The patch is tested against the range of macOS versions, the earliest version 
tested is 10.13 High Sierra (as 11u backport), the latest version tested is 
15.5 Sequoia.

Testing:

- jtreg hotspot/jdk tier1 passed
- jtreg tier2, tier3 no regresstions
- gtest:all passed


[1] 
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Libc/blob/Libc-997.90.3/darwin/_dirhelper.c#L210

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Commit messages:
 - 8319589: Attach from root to a user java process not supported in Mac

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25824/files
  Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=25824&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8319589
  Stats: 255 lines in 8 files changed: 241 ins; 1 del; 13 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25824.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/25824/head:pull/25824

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/25824

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