On 24/06/2020 10:22, David Holmes wrote:
The other way around. The setAccessible has been there long before the
module system existed, to allow a non-public premain. As a side-effect
when the module system came along it also disabled some module access
check (I'm not sure exactly what).
This issue is nothing to do with modules. Instead I think the bug in the
JPLIS agent was discovered when core reflection didn't initially assume
readability so required changes to allow code in java.instrument to
invoke the agent's premain method.
-Alan
