java.library.path fix for MacOS X (7145798)

[James Melvin]

 > Are there any security issues with using dot on a search path?

Yes.  But if I told you, I'd have to delete you.  :)

- Jim


On 2/17/12 5:27 PM, Paul Hohensee wrote:
> Looks good. A nit: you could use %s:%c in the sprintf format string, vis,
>
> sprintf(ld_library_path, "%s:%c", t, '.');
>
> which would save allocating the "." string.
>
> Are there any security issues with using dot on a search path?
>
> Paul
>
> On 2/17/12 5:06 PM, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Apple's version of Java includes "." in the java.library.path
>> at the beginning. OpenJDK includes "." at the end of
>> java.library.path on Windows. On Linux and Solaris, "." is
>> not included at all.
>>
>> In the MacOS X port project, the relevant code was copied from
>> Linux so "." is not present in java.library.path. This should
>> be changed to make the OpenJDK7 version on MacOS X behave
>> similar to the Apple version of Java6.
>>
>> Here is the webrev URL:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dcubed/7145798-webrev/0/
>>
>> There more lines of comment in there than code...
>>
>> Thanks, in advance, for any feedback.
>>
>> Dan
>>