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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ *
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+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @summary JVM should be able to handle full path (directory path plus
+ *          class name) or directory path longer than MAX_PATH on windows.
+ * @library /test/lib
+ * @modules java.base/jdk.internal.misc
+ *          java.management
+ * @run main LongPath
+ */
+
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import jdk.test.lib.compiler.CompilerUtils;
+import jdk.test.lib.process.ProcessTools;
+import jdk.test.lib.process.OutputAnalyzer;
+
+public class LongPath {
+
+    private static final int MAX_PATH = 260;
+
+    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
+        Path sourceDir = Paths.get(System.getProperty("test.src"), "test-classes");
+        Path classDir = Paths.get(System.getProperty("test.classes"));
+        Path destDir = classDir;
+
+        // create a sub-path so that the destDir length is almost MAX_PATH
+        // so that the full path (with the class name) will exceed MAX_PATH
+        int subDirLen = MAX_PATH - classDir.toString().length() - 2;
+        if (subDirLen > 0) {
+            char[] chars = new char[subDirLen];
+            Arrays.fill(chars, 'x');
+            String subPath = new String(chars);
+            destDir = Paths.get(System.getProperty("test.classes"), subPath);
+        }
+
+        CompilerUtils.compile(sourceDir, destDir);
+
+        String bootCP = "-Xbootclasspath/a:" + destDir.toString();
+        ProcessBuilder pb = ProcessTools.createJavaProcessBuilder(
+            bootCP, "Hello");
+
+        OutputAnalyzer output = new OutputAnalyzer(pb.start());
+        output.shouldContain("Hello World")
+              .shouldHaveExitValue(0);
+
+        // increase the length of destDir to slightly over MAX_PATH
+        destDir = Paths.get(destDir.toString(), "xxxxx");
+        CompilerUtils.compile(sourceDir, destDir);
+
+        bootCP = "-Xbootclasspath/a:" + destDir.toString();
+        pb = ProcessTools.createJavaProcessBuilder(
+            bootCP, "Hello");
+
+        output = new OutputAnalyzer(pb.start());
+        output.shouldContain("Hello World")
+              .shouldHaveExitValue(0);
+    }
+}