Question: System.initializeSystemClass()

[Ulf Zibis]

Hi Christian (German?),

thanks for your interesting info, and testing the behavior for missing 
zip library. :-)

Regarding preloaded zip library in openJDK-6:
Maybe official JDK 6 is little different from openJDK, or in case of Windows

So I give this solution a try.

-Ulf


Am 11.01.2009 18:36, Christian Thalinger schrieb:
> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 17:19 +0100, Ulf Zibis wrote:
>   
>> MY QUESTION:
>> Is there any risk, to load zip library before opening the standard I/O 
>> streams out and err ?
>>     
>
> <snip>
>
>   
>> The only problem I see is, that if loadLibrary("zip") fails, the 
>> exception messages can't be propagated to standard err stream.
>>
>> What you guys do you think?
>>     
>
> libzip.so is loaded by the VM during startup before
> System.inializeSystemClass() is called.  So the loadLibrary("zip") does
> not load the library anymore, it already happened.
>
> And when the zip library is missing, you get an error message like this:
>
> Error occurred during initialization of VM
> Unable to load ZIP library: /export/home/twisti/projects/openjdk/openjdk-6-src-b14/j2sdk-image/jre/lib/amd64/libzip.so
>
> printed by a VM method.  And not Java code using err stream.  Moving the
> statement shouldn't matter.  It's just there in case (I wonder what
> case).
>
> - Christian
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