On Saturday 05 April 2008 03:34, Florent Daigni?re wrote:
> * Matthew Toseland <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> [2008-04-04 19:09:01]:
> 
> > On Friday 04 April 2008 06:20, nextgens at freenetproject.org wrote:
> > > Author: nextgens
> > > Date: 2008-04-04 05:20:31 +0000 (Fri, 04 Apr 2008)
> > > New Revision: 18966
> > > 
> > > Modified:
> > >    trunk/freenet/src/freenet/crypt/SHA1.java
> > >    trunk/freenet/src/freenet/support/DoublyLinkedListImpl.java
> > >    trunk/freenet/src/freenet/support/math/DecayingKeyspaceAverage.java
> > >    trunk/freenet/src/freenet/support/math/RunningAverage.java
> > >    
trunk/freenet/src/freenet/support/math/SimpleBinaryRunningAverage.java
> > > Log:
> > > implement Cloneable where we have a clone() method
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > public interface Cloneable
> > 
> > A class implements the Cloneable interface to indicate to the 
Object.clone() 
> > method that it is legal for that method to make a field-for-field copy of 
> > instances of that class.
> > 
> > Invoking Object's clone method on an instance that does not implement the 
> > Cloneable interface results in the exception CloneNotSupportedException 
being 
> > thrown.
> > 
> > By convention, classes that implement this interface should override 
> > Object.clone (which is protected) with a public method. See Object.clone() 
> > for details on overriding this method.
> > 
> > Note that this interface does not contain the clone method. Therefore, it 
is 
> > not possible to clone an object merely by virtue of the fact that it 
> > implements this interface. Even if the clone method is invoked 
reflectively, 
> > there is no guarantee that it will succeed. 
> > 
> 
> Okay, it's a bad idea in SHA1.java; I meant to do it in JavaSHA1.java
> (r18972) and forgot to revert that bit afterwards...
> 
> Fixed in r18998
> 
> I think that the patch is revelant for other classes.

I don't. Cloneable does not even contain a public clone(). Its ONLY purpose is 
to indicate to the JVM that it can do a field for field copy.
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