6999337: java.exe fails to start if some directory names in path to java binaries contain Russian characters
Summary: updated to make sure the system properties are accessable by vm during initialization
Reviewed-by: alanb, mchung

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Reviewed-by: darcy, weijun

Reviewed-by: mduigou

Reviewed-by: jjb

Reviewed-by: darcy, alanb

Reviewed-by: xdono

Reviewed-by: darcy, lancea, alanb, briangoetz, mduigou, mchung

Reviewed-by: jjg, mcimadamore

Summary: Directly map the threadStatus value to Thread.State
Reviewed-by: emcmanus, dholmes

Reviewed-by: peytoia

Reviewed-by: mduigou, lancea, alanb

6709457: (fc) lock/tryLock() throws IOException "Access is denied" when file opened for append [win]
Reviewed-by: chegar

Reviewed-by: okutsu

Reviewed-by: chegar, lancea

Reviewed-by: mchung, dholmes

Reviewed-by: forax, sherman, chegar

Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb

Summary: Add documentation to java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass()
Reviewed-by: dcubed, darcy

6992121: StringBuilder.ensureCapacity(int minCap) throws OutOfMemoryError with minCap=Integer.MIN_VALUE
Reviewed-by: dholmes, alanb

Summary: Updated the relevant javadoc description of java.lang.ClassLoader class w/ additional clarification.
Reviewed-by: mullan

Reviewed-by: alanb, sherman, darcy, igor

Reviewed-by: jrose

Summary: restore System.initializeSystemClasses prior to fix for 6797688
Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: okutsu

Reviewed-by: mbykov

Reviewed-by: alanb

Reviewed-by: martin

Reviewed-by: valeriep

Reviewed-by: jjg

Reviewed-by: dholmes

Summary: Initialize suppressedExceptions field to null
Reviewed-by: briangoetz, dholmes, forax

Reviewed-by: dholmes, coffeys

Summary: let arraycopy throw AIOOBE for invalid negative length
Reviewed-by: chegar, forax

Reviewed-by: alanb, forax, jjb

Summary: Remove (hopefully!) unnecessary check of currentTimeMillis
Reviewed-by: dholmes
Contributed-by: NJon VanAlten <jon.vanalten@redhat.com>

Summary: Add public variants of methods Surrogate.high, Surrogate.low
Reviewed-by: okutsu, sherman
Contributed-by: NUlf Zibis <ulf.zibis@gmx.de>

Summary: Use generics and conform to coding style
Reviewed-by: sherman
Contributed-by: NUlf Zibis <ulf.zibis@gmx.de>

Summary: Fix surrogate area docs; make source more readable
Reviewed-by: okutsu, sherman
Contributed-by: NUlf Zibis <ulf.zibis@gmx.de>