<AWT Dev> Reviewer needed - fix for regression test java/awt/Insets/WindowWithWarningTest/WindowWithWarningTest

Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Fri Dec 3 04:49:03 PST 2010


On 15:21 Fri 03 Dec     , Anthony Petrov wrote:
> On 12/2/2010 9:26 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> > By default, there is no SecurityManager (getSecurityManager returns null) and thus
> > everything is permitted.  Once the default instance is installed, you're subject
> > to java.policy.
> >
> > The above results are nothing to do with jtreg as the above examples
> > are all just run with a standard 'java' invocation.
> 
> Hm... that's surprising. I believe the testing machine where the test 
> was developed had some very permissive default security policy, and as 
> such the problem hasn't been caught.
> 
> OK, then the test really needs some change, and the proposed fix looks 
> good to me.
> 
> PS. Although if the enhanced security warning is backported to OpenJDK6, 
> the test and the fix seem useless. And it's already useless in JDK7.
> 

Ok, well as both you and Joe
(http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2010-December/002143.html)
have said that the warning fix is ok to backport, I'll post a webrev
for this either today or early next week.

Then we can just remove the test from both 6 & 7.

> --
> best regards,
> Anthony

Thanks,
-- 
Andrew :)

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