Re: Security manager problem

[Anthony Green]

On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 16:14 +0000, Gary Benson wrote:
> I'm having security manager problems, with JamVM at least.  Various
> initialisations happen the first time a permission is checked,
> including java.security.Security's <clinit> method which reads the
> provider files $vendor.security and classpath.security.  By this time
> you are most likely running under a security manager, so if that
> doesn't allow those files to be read then you get SecurityExceptions
> you weren't expecting.

It's been a long time since I've read anything about this kind of stuff,
but my understanding is that you simply wrap things like this up in a
AccessController.doPrivileged(), since the access control context of the
bootstrap or system class loader will permit file I/O.

AG