sun/awt/OSInfo.java

[Weijun Wang]

I don't meant to add any API for external users, but even JDK itself 
needs some helper classes, and looks like sun.misc is the place.

In this case, there are too many places inside JDK that checks what the 
current OS is. Some uses startsWith and some contains, some toLowerCase 
and some toUppreCase, some might not be complete (no OS X?). It will be 
nice if we have a safe and consistent way. It could even cover the 
PropertyPermission needed.

--Max

On 6/24/13 4:13 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> 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