RFE: Inclusion of correct permission resolution patch in IcedTea

[Matthias Klose]

On 16.07.2010 18:16, Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 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?

yes, if it's already in 1.7 and icedtea6. I'm just trying to avoid extensive 
backports to the build system in the branch (1.6 didn't build anymore for 
configurations used by me).

   Matthias