-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 15. April 2004 20:10 schrieb Tom Tromey: > >>>>> "Ewout" == Ewout Prangsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ewout> I've noticed lots of System.getProperty calls in classpath. > Ewout> These calls can throw security exceptions when a security > Ewout> manager is active. > > Ewout> To avoid this wrap the getProperty call in a > Ewout> PrivilegedAction. I've written some helper classes to avoid > Ewout> retyping that every time. I'm happy to send them. > > Ewout> PS. The security manager also causes other issues, but > Ewout> getProperty is most frequent. > > The security manager code hasn't been used very much. It's great > that you're trying this out. We're definitely interested in > patches to wrap these calls. In some cases it would also be good > to just cache the result...
Caching can be dangerous because the SecurityManager may decide differently depending on who called a method, or the SecurityManager may hav changed totally ... This has to be carefully thought out. Michael - -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAf5jYWSOgCCdjSDsRAnxgAJ4wL3zqKzOTe5uW4HI2CSBalH752ACglJMZ VMoEhm1iAp8tShl1WAKM05k= =8hSM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
