Re: Finding .security files

[Brian Jones]

Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

> Now, we define java.vm.name as "GNU libgcj", which we'd really rather
> not use as a directory name (and which we'd rather not change).  So
> one idea I had here was to change this code to remove everything up to
> and including the first space.  This is sort of ugly, but will get us
> what we want.

Perhaps relying on the VM name is a poor choice, things like this are
too easily changed by marketdroids.

> Also, for some installs of libgcj it would be more appropriate not to
> look for a file at all.  For instance an embedded system may not have
> a filesystem.  One thought here was to have a way to provide Classpath
> with a base URL to which the appropriate names could be added.  Then
> for embedded systems we could use a libgcj-style "core:/" URL to find
> the security providers.

I would assume the use of URL makes sense here, and it could be a file
URL, network URL, jar URL, etc...

Brian
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