Review Request for 9000142: PlatformPCSC.java loading unversioned native shared library

[Valerie (Yu-Ching) Peng]

Won't this change break systems which don't have libpcsclite.so.1?
Changes like this need to be thought through. What happens when 
libpcsclite.so.2 comes out?
As for API changes, shouldn't there be some compatibility requirement on 
APIs as libpcsclite.so evolves?
Valerie

On 04/24/13 04:05, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 03/01/2013 11:30 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The bug for this review request is at:
>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=9000142
>>
>> In PlatformPCSC.java unversioned native libraries are loaded by default
>> if no system property is specified. This could lead to a JVM crash if
>> the API of the native library changes, but the Java code still relies on
>> old API. The fix is to load versioned shared libraries instead.
>
> Hmm.  Why doesn't the "j2pcsc" library link against the right version 
> of libpcsclite.so?
>