This is related to bug 4637504 (java.lang.Process does not clean up
file resources) which is a regression bug .
. The test case attached for bug 4637504 fails on Itanium XP machine with the
following output .

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Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Bad file descriptor
 at java.io.FileInputStream.readBytes(Native Method)
      at java.io.FileInputStream.read(FileInputStream.java:174)
       at Test.main(Test.java:10)

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This passes on all the remaining Windows platforms as well as Solaris/Linux platforms.

For reproducing this bug , use the program attached for bug 4637504 .