On 29/11/2013 14:43, Alex Yursha wrote:
Hi everyone, the summary of this issue is that it seems like
java.security.BasicPermission.implies() executes a useless check that
duplicates the functionality provided by java.lang.String.startsWith().
Below is a jdk7 code for java.security.BasicPermission.implies() method
with the lines of interest highlighted in bold:
On the surface this it does appear to be unnecessary so I'd suggest
bringing it up on security-dev where this area is maintained (it looks
like BasicPermission could do with at least some clean-up anyway).
-Alan.
