RFR (12): 8191053: Provide a mechanism to make system's security manager immutable

[Daniel Fuchs]

On 14/09/2018 03:45, mandy chung wrote:
>> The behavior makes sense, though the name I think is misleading. It 
>> seems not to disallow a security manager, but to disallow the 
>> capability to *set* the security manager. Maybe 
>> "jdk.allowSetSecurityManager" ?
>>
> 
> When -Djdk.allowSecurityManager is set at startup, no security manager 
> is allowed.  Most cases a security manager is started via 
> -Djava.security.manager on the command-line.

Maybe it would be less confusing if the property was named
-Djdk.disableSecurityManager, because AFAICT, it's what it does?

best regards,

-- daniel