-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 10:43 schrieb Jeroen Frijters: > Michael Koch wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Oktober 2004 10:26 schrieb Jeroen Frijters: > > > I would like to propose to move the system properties to a > > > public class in the gnu.classpath package. This removes the > > > need to use GetPropertyAction to access the properties and -- > > > more importantly to me -- it also greatly simplifies class > > > initialization dependencies (currently, every class that > > > requires access to the system properties sucks in a huge > > > dependency (java.lang.System, SecurityManager and who knows > > > what else). > > > > > > The obvious downside is that we'd really need to get serious > > > about preventing untrusted code access to the gnu.classpath.* > > > package. > > > > > > Any thoughts, comments or objections? > > > > I'm all for simplifying and generalizing code but how do you want > > to implement this in a secure way ? > > I'm not sure yet. I think it would require VM support to make the > gnu.classpath package special (e.g. in that it can only be accessed > by code loaded by the bootstrap class loader).
Is this really a good idea ? Michael - -- Homepage: http://www.worldforge.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBZQgrWSOgCCdjSDsRAtTUAJwOwmGThPRb6abwxdnyll4xHd/l/ACeJVP9 NX85kNlX8fLYJ+/URAEUyR0= =Zl/U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Classpath mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/classpath
