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

[Kurchi Hazra]

Thanks Alan for the thumbs up.

I filed 7164636 for the cleanup.

- Kurchi

On 4/26/2012 12:18 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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

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-Kurchi