RFR: JDK-8047769 SecureRandom should be more frugal with file descriptors

Peter Levart peter.levart at gmail.com
Thu Jan 1 19:21:48 UTC 2015


On 12/29/2014 04:51 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 29/12/2014 09:45, Peter Levart wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for looking at this, Alan.
>>
>> You're right about File.getCanonicalFile(). It already checks read 
>> permission for a file. The additional explicit check is superfluous. 
>> I have removed it.
>>
>> With explicit check I wanted the API to behave uniformly regardless 
>> of whether the returned stream is opened by getInputStream() call or 
>> an already opened stream is just returned. getCannonicalFile() 
>> already takes care of it. Here's the updated webrev:
>>
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/FileInputStreamPool.8047769/webrev.03/ 
>>
> Updated patch looks good to me.
>
> -Alan.

Thanks, Alan.

Peter
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