RFR 9 8055330: (process spec) ProcessBuilder.start and Runtime.exec should throw UnsupportedOperationException ...

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/02/2015 21:06, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> :
> The historic spec allows for both SecurityException and IOException (but
> not UOE).
> Locked-down systems typically (but not necessarily) have a SecurityManager
> that helps enforce the restrictions and so SecurityException seems vaguely
> appropriate.
>
There are a small number of places where SecurityException is thrown 
when not running with a security manager (defineClass, package sealing) 
but it can be confusing for developers to get this exception when there 
isn't a Java security manager. So I don't think we should be using it here.

-Alan