RFC: backport S7102369

[Omair Majid]

On 12/12/2011 05:41 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 14:04 Mon 12 Dec     , Omair Majid wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I would like to backport the fix for S7102369 to icedtea6.
>>
>> The fix is already in jdk6, but missed the jdk6b24 cutoff:
>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk6/jdk6/jdk/rev/6b46f3c7c97c
>>
>> This fixes a regression caused by the recent security update that
>> requires rmiregistry to be started with java.rmi.server.codebase
>> property set. Additional details can be found in this bug report:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751203
>>
>> The patch for HEAD is attached. If no one has any objections, I will
>> prepare patches for 1.9 and 1.10 as well.
>>
>> ChangeLog:
>> 2011-12-12  Omair Majid<omajid at redhat.com>
>>
>>       S7102369, S7094468: remove java.rmi.server.codebase property
>>       parsing from rmiregistry
>>       * patches/openjdk/7102369-7094468-rmiregistry.patch: New file.
>>       Backport from OpenJDK6.
>>       * Makefile.am (ICEDTEA_PATCHES): Apply the patch.
>>
>> Any thoughts or comments?
>>
>
> This one was on my own backport TODO list after it was posted to OpenJDK6,
> so thanks for handling it.  I don't like that the patch includes a lot of
> unnecessary changes to generics but as this is in the original OpenJDK6
> patch, I guess we're stuck with it.
>

I guess the developer who did the backport just wanted to sync the 
openjdk6 and openjdk7 versions to avoid any surprises and to 
(effectively) maintain one version of the code going forward.

> Is there any reason you're not considering 1.8?  It's still supported at present.

Oh, right. I can make a patch for that too. Does the original patch look 
okay for HEAD?

Thanks,
Omair