> System.currentTimeMillis();
Hello everyone, I've just tried to fool the VM into loading my version of System which has a modified currentTimeMillis(). However, I get this response from the VM: Error occurred during initialization of VM java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError This is probably because the System class when it is initialized, registered its native methods. The currentTimeMillis() is a native method in the original System and a non-native in my hacked version. Some code in the VM may explicitly check for the native version on currentTimeMillis. I took the native registration code out, but still got the same error. Therefore, I don't think this approach is possible, at least, given the Vm I am using (Sun's java version for 1.3.1). One other approach would be to provide a different native library which would be called. You would need to work out how to substitute a different native library, call yours, and do yout stuff in it, possibly calling up into the VM to get access to Java level code. In your native library, you would then have to call the original native library to get the actual time --- or just call the C function that returns this information, which *I think* is gettimeofday(3C). Once you've got the real time, you would then return this. Regards Huw Evans -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
