Code Review Request: 7184287: (prefs) BackingStoreException when calling flush on root node[macosx]

[Kurchi Subhra Hazra]

Thanks Alan. There is another bug on synchronization in the prefs 
implementation that I need to look into.

I will get rid of the extra brace, and push this then.

- Kurchi

On 7/22/12 12:16 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 19/07/2012 19:31, Kurchi Subhra Hazra wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> While flushing user preferences, a BackingStoreException is not 
>> expected, since
>> the current user should be able to 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 flush any changes to the persistent storage on Mac OS X.
>>
>> Bug: http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7184287
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~khazra/7184287/webrev.00/
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kurchi
> I looked at the changes and the approach looks good to me. Hopefully 
> this is the end of the issues with the preferences API on Mac. The 
> only thing that doesn't seem right to me is MacOSXPreferences.java 
> L234 where it looks like an additional brace has sneaked in.
>
> -Alan.