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

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 02/04/2014 04:48 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 
> > As has already been mentioned on this thread, libraries should have their
> > version increased when the ABI changes. Thus, a libpcsclite.so.2 or later
> > would indicate a different ABI to what the JDK PCSC code was written for.
> >
> > Now, it may be that the code also works fine with .2, but from my
> > perspective,
> > I'd rather the JDK fail with an error message and someone manually points
> > it
> > at a working .2 (and hopefully gives feedback that it's all good), than
> > the JDK grabs any old version of the library and then crashes when the ABI
> > doesn't match. That not only looks worse, but it's potentially harder to
> > debug as well.
> 
> I still think it's better to remove the dlopen/dlsym machinery and use
> dynamic linking instead.
> 

I've provided that as an option in IcedTea, but it then means that a different PCSC
implementation can't be swapped in.

> --
> Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security Team
> 

-- 
Andrew :)

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