RFR: 8274397: [macOS] Stop setting env. var JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> in launcher code [v4]

Sergey Bylokhov serb at openjdk.java.net
Mon Oct 4 21:40:09 UTC 2021


On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 21:10:27 GMT, Phil Race <prr at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> macOS launcher code sets JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> which is read by AWT to set the name of the application in the system menu bar.
>> 
>> Because this set shortly after the VM is running, it causes a thread safety issue described in https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8270549
>> 
>> Since the AWT already looks for the system property "apple.awt.application.name" for this same purpose,
>> we can set that instead of the env. var and avoid the threading issue.
>> 
>> This trades the JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> pollution of the environment for setting a system property which is visible to apps as well but it seems a reasonable trade-off since we already (implicitly) support this variable anyway in preference to the env. var.
>
> Phil Race has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   8274397: Stop setting env. var JAVA_MAIN_CLASS_<pid> in launcher code

Marked as reviewed by serb (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5724



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