On 1/12/2011 9:23 AM, Xueming Shen wrote:
(1) you might need to consider the use scenario of an unset HOME env
(2) it appears to be an in-compatible change if the values from getpwuid
and
from HOME are different (understood this is what you want to address),
in which
I think might need a CCC review (for the possible in-compatible change
of behavior)
Yes at a minimum this should go to CCC to assess whether it should be
changed (there's been some side-channel email on this). There are a lot
of potential issues with this proposed change.
David
-Sherman
On 11/30/2011 2:23 PM, Darryl Mocek wrote:
Wrong webrev link. Here's the correct one:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dmocek/7069190/webrev.00
Darryl
On 11/30/2011 02:16 PM, Darryl Mocek wrote:
Hello. Please review this patch to fix the getting of the user's home
setting using System.getProperty("user.home") on UNIX's. The previous
implementation used getpwuid, which didn't allow the user to set the
value in the environment.
Webrev, can be found here:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darryl/7069190/webrev.00
Thanks,
Darryl
