Getting a live view of environment variables (Gradle and JDK 9)

[dalibor topic]

On 11.05.2017 18:29, Cédric Champeau wrote:
>
>
>     Unfortunately, they are not safely mutable in multi-threaded
>     programs on many operating system/libc combinations.
>
> But the problem is less about mutating, that it is about reading: the VM
> returns wrong values at some point, because it _assumes_ that the
> environment variables are not mutated.

Right. Assuming that another thread could be simultaneously writing to 
the same data structure holding environment variables (char **), reading 
itself becomes problematic at such points in time, as you might read a 
temporarily corrupted data structure.

I guess the question underneath is if there is a safe point in time when 
reading the data could be preformed and no concurrent write from JNI 
code corrupting the data when it's partially read is possible.

cheers,
dalibor topic
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