-classpath @FILE

[Kumar Srinivasan]

Martin,

CR: 4326573, I have updated this bug with your solution.

Danke
Kumar

> On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 15:08, Kumar Srinivasan<Kumar.Srinivasan at sun.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I take it you want me to integrate this after due diligence ?
>>     
>
> Yes.
> We are not in any hurry to integrate it,
> and we understand that there may need to be work done on
> this (like generalization/doc/test work) that Google might not
> want to do (or cannot, in the case of the man pages),
> so this change may reasonably remain unmerged.
> For the time being, it is useful for us.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~martin/webrevs/openjdk7/classpath@FILE/
>
> Please file an RFE.
>
> Martin
>
>   
>> I can take a look at it, as a submission, but I can't promise when I will
>> be able to look into getting it into openjdk as my priorities are focused
>> elsewhere at this time.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kumar
>>
>>     
>>> Hi launcher team,
>>>
>>> We have a local mod to openjdk's launcher here at Google
>>> that we would be willing to send upstream.
>>> We were hitting the 128kb command line arg limit
>>> (that is, the Linux limit on the size of *one* argument,
>>> not the entire command line) and made the simple expedient
>>> of allowing the classpath to be specified via a file,
>>> using the familiar
>>> -cp @FILE
>>> syntax.
>>>
>>> It's hard to create a uniform support for @FILE
>>> across all jdk commands, because the jar and javac
>>> commands already do their own @FILE parsing.
>>> So although -cp @FILE is a bit of a hack,
>>> it is useful enough that it probably should be part of the jdk.
>>> Remember that jdk engineers tend not to experience "jar hell"
>>> themselves.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>>       
>> --
>> Kumar Srinivasan           Sun Microsystems, Java Software.
>> 408-276-7586
>>
>>
>>     


-- 
Kumar Srinivasan           
Sun Microsystems, Java Software.
408-276-7586

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