On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:29 PM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hega...@oracle.com> wrote:
> > Re-reading/refreshing the env variables has come up before, in other > contexts. As David pointed out [1], re-reading introduces no more risk than > is already there ( if specified correctly ). > Adding a Java API for re-reading would be really weird because there would be no Java API for writing, and there's no way on a Unix system to write at all without introducing a risk of SEGV. > -Chris. > > [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2017- > May/047668.html