sun/awt/OSInfo.java

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Jun 24 08:13:11 UTC 2013


On 24/06/2013 05:57, Weijun Wang wrote:
> I thought os.name for Solaris is 'Solaris' but it's actually 'SunOS'. 
> There is a helper class at
>
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk8/tl/jdk/file/fd050ba1cf72/src/share/classes/sun/awt/OSInfo.java 
>
>
> This file uses
>
>   if (osName.contains("Solaris") || osName.contains("SunOS"))
>
> Is it real that the value can be 'Solaris' also?
>
> Can we use this class or make a copy (or move it) into sun.misc?

It's always been "SunOS".

Can you provide more context? The problem with adding or moving things 
to sun.misc is that it gets really hard to change or remove things later.

-Alan



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