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

[Staffan Larsen]

With “Unified JVM Logging” (JEP-158) we plan to make sure that all warnings/error and other output from the JVM can be redirected to files or muted. I think that is the real solution we are looking for here. That feature is currently planned for JDK 9.

/Staffan

On 3 apr 2014, at 19:16, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:

> 
> On 03/04/2014 17:03, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
>>> Ivan,
>>> 
>>> The VM squawks about JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS and _JAVA_OPTIONS being used
>>> because they are dangerous. Adding an option that would allow the
>>> same mechanism to be used without warning would be... well...
>>> even more dangerous.
>>> 
>> The customer already has a way to get rid of the warning: Preprocess the output and filter the warning out.
>> This approach is ugly, hard to make general and leads to errors.
>> 
>> I think we should provide an option to achieve the same effect but without that hard work around.
> I think this suggested enhancement would be a plus to many enterprises. The issue stems from the submitter running into issues with how the user.home property works on windows vista and later. Fix was addressed in JDK-6519127 and JDK8 but can't be backported to 7u due to behavioural differences. Given the enterprise and many applications, a per application system property to set the user.home property wasn't suitable. _JAVA_OPTIONS makes for easier deployment of this property.
> 
> Now - with submitter having to use _JAVA_OPTIONS, it spews out such settings to stderr. Other applications are scraping output from stderr. Yes - not a great design, but that's the way it is.
> 
> This new option would surely be a useful addition for anyone running into such an issue. Is there a better way without them re-writing application code ?
> 
> regards,
> Sean.
>> 
>> Sincerely yours,
>> Ivan 
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