Dear JDK Security-devs, Recently, during profiling, I noticed that UnixNumericUserPrincipal has useless conversion between long and string:
```
private String name;
public UnixNumericUserPrincipal(long name) {
this.name = Long.toString(name);
}
/**
* Return the user identification number (UID) for this
* {@code UnixNumericUserPrincipal} as a long.
*
* @return the user identification number (UID) for this
* {@code UnixNumericUserPrincipal} as a long.
*/
public long longValue() {
return Long.parseLong(name);
}
```
My naive assumption is, that if one uses UnixNumericXxxPrincipal,
then with a high probability, `longValue` will be called, thus
converting long to a string and back is not that efficient (which
is visible in the profiler). The same is true for
UnixNumericGroupPrincipal too.
Unfortunately, the presence of `readObject`method makes modifications
to the class not trivial.
Best regards,
Tigran.
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