<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The use of _JAVA_OPTIONS is part of the long established pattern to configured a process. This pattern preferes configurations starting with command line over environment variables over configuration files. I can understand why this is problematic if one is unaware but this is a decades old well establish practice that the JVM follows.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class="">Kirk<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 8, 2024, at 7:00 AM, Bruno Borges <<a href="mailto:Bruno.Borges@microsoft.com" class="">Bruno.Borges@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div dir="auto" class="">Thanks Alan.</div>
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<div dir="auto" class="">I'll follow up there </div>
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<b class="">Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 7, 2024 9:43:27 PM<br class="">
<b class="">To:</b> Bruno Borges <<a href="mailto:Bruno.Borges@microsoft.com" class="">Bruno.Borges@microsoft.com</a>>; <a href="mailto:hotspot-dev@openjdk.org" class="">hotspot-dev@openjdk.org</a> <<a href="mailto:hotspot-dev@openjdk.org" class="">hotspot-dev@openjdk.org</a>><br class="">
<b class="">Subject:</b> [EXTERNAL] Re: Discuss: Prevent jlink runtimes from reading _JAVA_OPTIONS</font>
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On 08/05/2024 04:25, Bruno Borges wrote:<br class="">
> In this Reddit discussion [1], the user complains that a jlinked <br class="">
> runtime of their application, packaged with jpackage, was failing to <br class="">
> some degree due to the environment variable _JAVA_OPTIONS being set <br class="">
> somewhere else in the system.<br class="">
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> I do agree with the user that a runtime shipped as a built-in <br class="">
> component of a Java-based standalone application should not have its <br class="">
> properties altered due to a magical environment variable.<br class="">
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> I'd like to ask if it is reasonable to suggest that in the case of a <br class="">
> jlinked runtime, this should not happen.<br class="">
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There was another thread about this a few days ago [1].<br class="">
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-Alan<br class="">
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