Roger, > On 20 Jul 2018, at 14:52, Roger Riggs <roger.ri...@oracle.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > It is very unusual for the processing of system properties to do *any* > parsing except for delimiters > including removing spaces, etc. It complicates the handling and sets a bad > precedent > that makes it more complex for users and developers to know how to set > property values. > The whitespace trimming should be removed.
The addition of the whitespace trimming was to clarify the intent of the existing wording regarding whitespace. It was not intended to set a precedent, good or bad. Regardless of any subjective opinion, whitespace are allowable within system property values, so it’s a matter of whether or not we want to deal with them explicitly or just leave it as an implementation detail. I’m ok to drop the trimming if you feel strongly about it. But just to note that this now diverges even more from the original. -Chris. > $.02, Roger > >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8207846/webrev.00/ >> >> -Chris. >> >> P.S. It appears that jtreg does not support quoted system property values >> with spaces on the @run line. I’ll file an issue against jtreg for this. >> >
