The test harness can run tests within the same jvm if useprocess=false. This is set for the nist suite, so that all the sub-scripts are run in a single JVM, mainly for performance reasons.
I'm looking at the code in RunTest.java so I can add security manager to this in-process mode. The buildTestCommand() method is called regardless of the setting of useprocess, though it seems its result is only used for useprocess=true. Thus it seems that the call to buildTestCommand could move into the same if (useprocess) block around line 438. This leads me to the question, it seems buildTestCommand() performs a some amount of setup through property setting with -D that does not occur when running in process (useprocess=false). Apart from the security properties, the console encoding is set in buildTestCommand(), but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding setting in the in-process way. Is this intentional, or a source for concern? Thanks, Dan.
