--- a/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/filemap.cpp	Tue Nov 18 15:25:14 2014 -0800
+++ b/hotspot/src/share/vm/memory/filemap.cpp	Wed Dec 03 14:21:14 2014 +0000
@@ -217,9 +217,14 @@
           EXCEPTION_MARK; // The following call should never throw, but would exit VM on error.
           SharedClassUtil::update_shared_classpath(cpe, ent, st.st_mtime, st.st_size, THREAD);
         } else {
-          ent->_filesize  = -1;
-          if (!os::dir_is_empty(name)) {
-            ClassLoader::exit_with_path_failure("Cannot have non-empty directory in archived classpaths", name);
+          struct stat st;
+          if ((os::stat(name, &st) == 0) && ((st.st_mode & S_IFDIR) == S_IFDIR)) {
+            if (!os::dir_is_empty(name)) {
+              ClassLoader::exit_with_path_failure("Cannot have non-empty directory in archived classpaths", name);
+            }
+            ent->_filesize = -1;
+          } else {
+            ent->_filesize = -2;
           }
         }
         ent->_name = strptr;
@@ -271,7 +276,7 @@
         fail_continue("directory is not empty: %s", name);
         ok = false;
       }
-    } else {
+    } else if (ent->is_jar()) {
       if (ent->_timestamp != st.st_mtime ||
           ent->_filesize != st.st_size) {
         ok = false;