Chris Gray wrote: > Olivier dixit: > > > ok, I just tested myself on Windows and it seems that the RI ignores > > environment variable changes, so I guess it's fine if we > stick with what > > we have in Harmony. > > Now that I think about it, I remember someone complaining > once on a Java newsgroup that changing the CLASSPATH environment > variable had no effect on a running JVM. He got an education in > Java class loading. :-)
On Windows at least this actually has nothing to do with class loading. You simply cannot modify an environment variable of a running process (at least not from outside that process). Every process has its own copy, so changing the parent process' environment makes no difference, nor does changing the environment of a child process. Regards, Jeroen --------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms of use : http://incubator.apache.org/harmony/mailing.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
