On 11/21/2010 8:29 AM, Jonathan Costers wrote:
2010/11/21 Patricia Shanahan<[email protected]>
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Jonathan Costers wrote:
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does not have required permission:
(com.sun.jini.start.SharedActivationPolicyPermission
file:/C:/apache2/River/qa/harness/policy/defaultgroup.policy)
...
What this means is that it has no permission to use file:*/*C:/.... , the
policies only give permission to file:C:\... Note extra / between file:
and
C:
Well spotted! Thanks.
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I did a quick scan of the log,
http://www.patriciashanahan.com/apache/failingTest.txt, and the first
appearance of an extra "/" is in the first "-D" parameter on the test start
command:
[java] Starting test in separate process with command:
[java] 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_22\jre\bin\java'
-Djava.security.policy=file:/C:/apache2/River/qa/harness/policy/defaulttest.policy
...
This may not be the direct cause of the failures, but is certainly worth
investigating. Making all file: URIs correct, even with Windows' annoying
path structure, seems like a reasonable objective for avoiding Windows-only
bugs. At some point, I'll probably find some idiom or shared method that
really is the root cause of the failures.
Line 146 in qa/src/com/sun/jini/qa/resources/qaDefaults.properties is
probably the "root cause".
The<url> tag translates a relative path into an URL.
However, one could argue that this (file:/C:/...) is a correct URL and that
the policy files really should accept it.
I'll investigate this by experimenting with java.net.URI, as well as
re-reading the relevant documents. If the "/" before the drive letter is
required - to indicate absolute rather than relative path in the URL -
then the problem may be in how the permissions were originally set up.
Incidentally, Firefox accepts from 0 through 3 "/" characters between
the "file:" and the drive letter, but browsers often accept things that
are not strictly correct.
In any case, I have some good questions, and this is a promising line of
inquiry, because file: URL construction interacts with file path name
construction, which is different between Windows and the other systems
on which River has been tested.
Patricia
