Question: System.initializeSystemClass()

Christian Thalinger christian.thalinger at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 13:52:08 PST 2009


On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 22:38 +0100, Ulf Zibis wrote:
> Am 11.01.2009 22:30, Christian Thalinger schrieb:
> > I don't know the JDK 6 code, but I guess the zip library loading is the
> > same (please correct me if I'm wrong).  And I'm very sure it's the same
> > on Windows.
> >
> >
> >   
> I've compared JDK 6 to latest openJDK 6 sources.
> You are right, I couldn't find a difference in classes System and ZipFile.
> 
> So It's a mystery, how zip library can be preloaded on Linux.

Eh... well, this happens in HotSpot.  Loading libzip.so is done in
native code.

- Christian




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