--- old/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java	2018-09-10 14:12:17.443490752 -0400
+++ new/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ClassLoader.java	2018-09-10 14:12:16.967490752 -0400
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@
 import jdk.internal.ref.CleanerFactory;
 import jdk.internal.reflect.CallerSensitive;
 import jdk.internal.reflect.Reflection;
+import jdk.internal.util.PathParser;
 import sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil;
 import sun.security.util.SecurityConstants;
 
@@ -2555,53 +2556,8 @@
 
     private static String[] initializePath(String propName) {
         String ldPath = System.getProperty(propName, "");
-        int ldLen = ldPath.length();
-        char ps = File.pathSeparatorChar;
-        int psCount = 0;
-
-        if (ClassLoaderHelper.allowsQuotedPathElements &&
-            ldPath.indexOf('\"') >= 0) {
-            // First, remove quotes put around quoted parts of paths.
-            // Second, use a quotation mark as a new path separator.
-            // This will preserve any quoted old path separators.
-            char[] buf = new char[ldLen];
-            int bufLen = 0;
-            for (int i = 0; i < ldLen; ++i) {
-                char ch = ldPath.charAt(i);
-                if (ch == '\"') {
-                    while (++i < ldLen &&
-                        (ch = ldPath.charAt(i)) != '\"') {
-                        buf[bufLen++] = ch;
-                    }
-                } else {
-                    if (ch == ps) {
-                        psCount++;
-                        ch = '\"';
-                    }
-                    buf[bufLen++] = ch;
-                }
-            }
-            ldPath = new String(buf, 0, bufLen);
-            ldLen = bufLen;
-            ps = '\"';
-        } else {
-            for (int i = ldPath.indexOf(ps); i >= 0;
-                 i = ldPath.indexOf(ps, i + 1)) {
-                psCount++;
-            }
-        }
 
-        String[] paths = new String[psCount + 1];
-        int pathStart = 0;
-        for (int j = 0; j < psCount; ++j) {
-            int pathEnd = ldPath.indexOf(ps, pathStart);
-            paths[j] = (pathStart < pathEnd) ?
-                ldPath.substring(pathStart, pathEnd) : ".";
-            pathStart = pathEnd + 1;
-        }
-        paths[psCount] = (pathStart < ldLen) ?
-            ldPath.substring(pathStart, ldLen) : ".";
-        return paths;
+        return PathParser.parsePath(ldPath, ".");
     }
 
     // Invoked in the java.lang.Runtime class to implement load and loadLibrary.