RFC: backport S7102369

[Omair Majid]

On 01/04/2012 07:10 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 16:56 Wed 04 Jan     , Omair Majid wrote:
>> On 12/12/2011 05:49 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>>> On 17:46 Mon 12 Dec     , Omair Majid wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> I would suggest adding it there, then posting the backports in a week's time if no
>>> issues arise.
>>>
>>
>> It's been more than a week and I have not heard any issues. Patches for
>> 1.8, 1.9 and 1.10 attached.
>>
>
> This is a regression so I think it needs to go in.  Approved.
>

Thanks for the review.

I have pushed the changesets:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.10/rev/f844632b05a0
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.9/rev/05bf6d3edab6
http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/release/icedtea6-1.8/rev/33616a2b4d2e

Cheers,
Omair