RFR: 8079301: Some command line options not settable via JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

[Jeremy Manson]

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 11:53 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
>
> On 10/07/2015 10:23 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
>
>> Hey Dmitry,
>>
>> Thanks for looking at it.  The leak was deliberate (under the theory that
>> the command line flags were leaked, too), but it was silly that I didn't
>> fix it.
>>
>> Anyway, fixed.  See:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jmanson/8079301/webrev.03
>>
>
> I'm not sure you've changed anything in this regard but it seems to me to
> me that if -XX:Flags=flags-file is specified on the command-line, and the
> environment variable(s) then the last setting wins - which would be the
> _JAVA_OPTIONS setting.
>
> Or maybe that is the way this whole thing works ie last setting wins?



Yep - last setting is supposed to win.  I tried to keep the behavior
consistent with what was there for the other flags.

Jeremy