JVM is crashing when it is not able to determine current working directory

JVM will crash, if it is not able to determine the current working directory.

Please see the following results with build 59c and with the build 63
<Result-b59c>
bash-3.00$ pwd
/home/rg157576/vittal
bash-3.00$ /net/sqindia.india/export/disk09/jdk/1.6.0/b59c//binaries/solsparc/bin/java -version
Error occurred during initialization of VM
java.lang.Error: Properties init: Could not determine current working directory.
        at java.lang.System.initProperties(Native Method)
        at java.lang.System.initializeSystemClass(System.java:1072)
<Result-b59c>

<Result-b63>
bash-3.00$ pwd
/home/rg157576/vittal
bash-3.00$ /net/sqindia.india/export/disk09/jdk/1.6.0/b63/binaries/solsparc/bin/java -version
#
# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xff2aea90, pid=18142, tid=2
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (1.6.0-rc-b63 mixed mode)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libc.so.1+0x2ea90] strlen+0x50
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as /tmp/hs_err_pid18142.log
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://java.sun.com/webapps/bugreport/crash.jsp
#
Abort
</Result-b63>
Error report file is attached.

To reproduce
1. Create a directory say temp
2. move to temp
3. change temp permissions to 077 (Use other terminal)
4. Now run java -version.

In the above scenario jvm will fail to determine current directoy that leads to crash.