Re: RFR: 8071507: (ref) Clear phantom reference as soft and weak references do

2015-12-03 Thread Peter B. Kessler
On 12/ 3/15 02:33 PM, Kim Barrett wrote: On Dec 3, 2015, at 1:14 PM, Peter Levart wrote: On 12/03/2015 06:01 PM, Mandy Chung wrote: On Dec 3, 2015, at 5:01 AM, Peter Levart wrote: I would only rephrase this statement in package-info.java a bit: 96 * Soft and weak references are auto

Re: Does Java do anything to prevent files from changing out from under it?

2008-05-14 Thread Peter B. Kessler
Thanks all for the definitive responses. ... peter Alan Bateman wrote: Peter B. Kessler wrote: Does the Java platform do anything to prevent files from changing out from under it? E.g., once one has opened a jar file for class loading, could a malicious (or oblivious

Does Java do anything to prevent files from changing out from under it?

2008-05-14 Thread Peter B. Kessler
Does the Java platform do anything to prevent files from changing out from under it? E.g., once one has opened a jar file for class loading, could a malicious (or oblivious) user write to the jar file and disturb the VM? Or is that all relegated to "the operating system", file system permissions