jdk.internal.reflect.ReflectionFactory and SecurityManager

[Chris Hegarty]

On 01/11/2017 02:55 AM, Paul Sandoz wrote:
> I am concerned it’s getting too late to twiddle with the security setting so i took the plunge and wrapped the privateLookupIn calls in doPrivileged blocks. It’s ugly but avoids the circularity (JPRT core/hotspot testing has not failed).
> 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~psandoz/jdk9/8160710-thread-to-tlr/webrev/


This looks good.

Trivially, the comment,  "Initialized lazily on demand”,  applies to the
lazy instantiation of the static nested class rather than the fields
themselves. I wonder if it would be better at the nested class level,
rather than at the fields.

-Chris.