RFR [8039152] Need a way to suppress message when picking up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Thank you Daniel for your complete analysis!

If I get it correctly, your main point is that we should always warn the 
user about using a dangerous way to pass the options.
While I tend to agree with it respecting to the standard 
JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS, I think if we can make a compromise dealing with a 
non-standard env variable.
If a user is using a non-standard variable, one should already be aware 
of the danger.

Introducing a new variable which will specifically be said to be quiet 
would not break the existing behavior.

Sincerely yours,
Ivan

On 03.04.2014 19:06, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
> On 4/3/14 8:40 AM, Staffan Larsen wrote:
>> On 3 apr 2014, at 16:28, Ivan Gerasimov <ivan.gerasimov at oracle.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Staffan!
>>>
>>>>> We've got a customer who is annoyed by this message.
>>>>> They use the env variable to pass additional options to the jvm.
>>>>> Currently they have to add some additional processing of the 
>>>>> output to scrape the stderr and get rid of this message.
>>>> It sounds like they have a good solution in place and no change is 
>>>> required on our part.
>>>>
>>>> Seriously, we have way too many options already and we cannot 
>>>> please everyone by adding options for every single use case.
>>> The solution they use now isn't good, that's why they complained.
>>>
>>> The proposed option might be useful by its own, in the case anyone 
>>> else will be annoyed by the message about picking up the env 
>>> variable content.
>>> Please also note, that it's not meant to be a command line option.
>>> It will only be used as a part of the env variable content.
>>>
>>> Your point that there are already plenty of other options is true, 
>>> but doesn't really suggests anything for this particular situation.
>> I suggest not solving this situation. As I said: "we cannot please 
>> everyone by adding options for every single use case.”
>
> I've added a somewhat long evaluation to the bug report.
>
> My summary line:
>
>    I strongly recommend that we don't try to change this behavior.
>
> Dan
>
>
>>
>> Sorry,
>> /Staffan
>>
>>> Sincerely yours,
>>> Ivan
>>>
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