On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 03:39:09 GMT, Phil Race <p...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> macOS launcher code sets JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> which is read by AWT to set >> the name of the application in the system menu bar. >> >> Because this set shortly after the VM is running, it causes a thread safety >> issue described in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8270549 >> >> Since the AWT already looks for the system property >> "apple.awt.application.name" for this same purpose, >> we can set that instead of the env. var and avoid the threading issue. >> >> This trades the JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> pollution of the environment for >> setting a system property which is visible to apps as well but it seems a >> reasonable trade-off since we already (implicitly) support this variable >> anyway in preference to the env. var. > > Phil Race has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > 8274397: Stop setting env. var JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> in launcher code I've now pushed the new test to verify the system property. I've verified the test passes on my local machine but can't (until Monday) be sure it passes in the CI test framework because of power maintenance that has just started. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5724
