Code Review Request: 7118100: Inconsistency when using system and user preference on OSX Lion

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/04/2012 01:34, Kurchi Hazra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While syncing user preferences, a BackingStoreException is not 
> expected, since
> the current user should be able to read/write such preferences to the
> persistent storage (unlike system preferences, where current user needs
> to have admin rights). This fix aims at allowing a user preference node
> to sync any changes to the persistent storage.
>
> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7118100
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~khazra/7118100/jdk8/webrev.00/
>
> This webrev had been earlier code-reviewed for 7u4(but never 
> committed) [1]. There are no
> additional changes required for jdk8.
>
> Thanks,
> Kurchi
>
> [1] 
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/macosx-port-dev/2012-February/003081.html
Kurchi - this looks fine to me. As per exchange on macosx-dev there is 
some clean-up to do in this code, including raw type warnings and we 
should make sure we have a bug to remember this.

-Alan