RFE: Inclusion of correct permission resolution patch in IcedTea

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 16 July 2010 17:12, Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, there is a permission resolution problem in OpenJDK that
> prevents it from resolving policies as per spec. The bug and the
> necessary patch are here:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/show_bug.cgi?id=100142
>
> Is it okay to commit this into IcedTea until the fix reaches upstream?
>
> Patch attached for convenience.
>
> Thanks,
> Deepak
>

As it's a regression from the proprietary JDK's behaviour and the
spec., I agree that this should be applied.  Please add it to HEAD,
and backport it to the 1.6 & 1.7 branches.

doko, do you want this for 1.8 too?

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :-)

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