Re: RFR : 8051614 : smartcardio TCK tests fail due to lack of 'reset' permission

2014-07-23 Thread Valerie Peng
I looked at the tests and thought about it some more. I agree that it makes sense to defer the check to post the security check. Changes look fine. Thanks, Valerie On 7/23/2014 9:51 AM, Valerie Peng wrote: Do you know which TCK tests fail? I want to check it out. Thanks, Valerie On 7/23/2014 1

Re: RFR : 8051614 : smartcardio TCK tests fail due to lack of 'reset' permission

2014-07-23 Thread Valerie Peng
Do you know which TCK tests fail? I want to check it out. Thanks, Valerie On 7/23/2014 1:15 AM, Seán Coffey wrote: Valerie, I agree it's not ideal, but we're doing nothing different than what was performed in the old JDK releases...(i.e no check there either). I can't say if many application

Re: JEP Review Request: Improve Security Manager Performance

2014-07-23 Thread David M. Lloyd
On 07/23/2014 07:07 AM, Tom Hawtin wrote: On 23/07/2014 05:26, David M. Lloyd wrote: I would suggest that one or more of the following be done to mitigate this problem: • Always have static initialization blocks be privileged (this does require users to be cognizant of this fact when writing st

Re: JEP Review Request: Improve Security Manager Performance

2014-07-23 Thread Tom Hawtin
On 23/07/2014 05:26, David M. Lloyd wrote: I would suggest that one or more of the following be done to mitigate this problem: • Always have static initialization blocks be privileged (this does require users to be cognizant of this fact when writing static blocks) If we were following "secure

Re: RFR : 8051614 : smartcardio TCK tests fail due to lack of 'reset' permission

2014-07-23 Thread Seán Coffey
Valerie, I agree it's not ideal, but we're doing nothing different than what was performed in the old JDK releases...(i.e no check there either). I can't say if many applications would be impacted by the Card.disconnect change going into 8u20 but we should make best efforts to preserve the old