8028270: Files.readSymbolicLink calls AccessController directly so security manager can't grant the permission

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/11/2013 16:01, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> If you compare with the analogous code in createSymbolicLink, one 
> would expect in addition a call to link.checkRead, since this is 
> "reading the contents of a file".  Users expect their security 
> manager's checkRead method to be called here.
It is specified to check the readlink action rather than read because 
read also grants permission to the final target of the link (there is 
awkwardness here due to problems with the way that FilePermission was 
original designed, it just doesn't mesh well with symbolic links).

-Alan.