RFR: 8235459: HttpRequest.BodyPublishers#ofFile(Path) assumes the default file system

[Daniel Fuchs]

OK, thanks for double checking Julia.

Looks good to me then!

best regards,

-- daniel

On 24/03/2020 16:33, Julia Boes wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
>> * @run testng/othervm/java.security.policy=FilePublisherPermsTest1.policy
>>
>> Does this actually work as expected? I thought the syntax was:
>>
>> @run testng/othervm/policy=<file>
> 
> I couldn't get the test to run with the latter but noticed that most 
> tests that are run with testng use the 'java.security.policy' option. It 
> works as expected.
> 
>> And FWIW there some subtlety with
>>   othervm/policy=<file>
>> versus
>>   othervm/policy==<file>
>>
>> and I never remember which one should be used.
>>
>> Here we do want the default.policy files to be extended, and not
>> replaced. So you may have to go with == (maybe)
> 
> That's right, any I actually wasn't aware of the '==' option. According 
> to [1], ‘==’ sets a *sole* policy file, whereas ‘=’ sets an *additional* 
> file. So we want to go with ‘=’.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Julia
> 
> 
> [1] 
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/security/PolicyFiles.html 
> (section: Specifying an Additional Policy File at Runtime)
>