RFR 8159245: Loggers created by system classes are not initialized correctly when configured programmatically from application code.

[Mandy Chung]

> On Jul 1, 2016, at 8:23 AM, Daniel Fuchs <daniel.fuchs at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 01/07/16 16:19, Mandy Chung wrote:
>>> I'd prefer to keep the doPrivileged in LogManager so that
>>> > Logger.mergeWithSystemLogger can call checkpermission().
>>> >
>>> > From a conceptual point of view it's only when calling
>>> > this method from LogManager that we want to be privileged,
>>> > even though the method is package private and only called
>>> > from LogManager…
>> Why is this extra checkPermission necessary?
> 
> Because we're importing an application logger configuration
> inside a system logger. Although the method can't be called
> from outside the package I'd prefer to keep the permission
> check in there. Also it's better to do it up front than
> having it fail midway when we later call addHandler or
> setLevel.

I think the additional check is unecessary but it’s harmless if you prefre to keep that.

Ship it.

Mandy