RFR(XXS): 8066766: The commands in the modular images are executable by the owner only

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Fri Dec 5 18:09:01 UTC 2014


Volker,

Personally I would use the more verbose version, Files.setPosixFilePermissions, so we can see any failures. But as Alan pointed out, this is a temporary build tool, and I live with it either way.   Is there any reason why you cannot use the NIO API ?

-Chris.

On 5 Dec 2014, at 16:50, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> thanks for the fast response.
> 
> I saw that code in ImageBuilder, but it looked overly complicated to
> me. What about cleaning that up as well:
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8066766.v2/
> 
> I've just checked that on Solaris 'jspawnhelper' still has the right
> execution bits set after the change.
> 
> Regards,
> Volker
> 
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> wrote:
>> Thanks Volker,
>> 
>> I agree with your change, or you can take the code from ImageBuilder. Either
>> is fine with me.
>> 
>>    private void setExecutable(Path file) {
>>        try {
>>            Set<PosixFilePermission> perms =
>> Files.getPosixFilePermissions(file);
>>            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OWNER_EXECUTE);
>>            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.GROUP_EXECUTE);
>>            perms.add(PosixFilePermission.OTHERS_EXECUTE);
>>            Files.setPosixFilePermissions(file, perms);
>>        } catch (IOException ioe) {
>>            throw new UncheckedIOException(ioe);
>>        }
>>    }
>> 
>> -Chris.
>> 
>> 
>> On 05/12/14 14:07, Volker Simonis wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> after the integration of the modular changes into jdk9-dev the
>>> executable commands in jdk/bin and jre/bin images are only executable
>>> by the file owner. This means that only the user who built the images
>>> can execute the programs.
>>> 
>>> This can be easily fixed with the following trivial change:
>>> 
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/8066766/
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8066766
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Volker
>>> 
>> 




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