RFR: 8316964: Security tools should not call System.exit [v5]

Valerie Peng valeriep at openjdk.org
Fri Oct 20 00:15:36 UTC 2023


On Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:23:13 GMT, Weijun Wang <weijun at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Remove most `System.exit()` calls in various security tools and only leave one in the `main` method. This paves the way to convert them to JSR 199 tools.
>> 
>> Note: before this change, the behavior of a successful `main()` method execution is not consistent. Sometimes the method returns silently, sometimes a `System.exit(0)` is called somewhere. After this change, the method always returns silently. This makes sure that existing programs that calls the `main` method directly will continue and does not exit the VM.
>
> Weijun Wang has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   inline some throw statements, remove duplicated whitespaces

src/java.base/share/classes/sun/security/tools/keytool/Main.java line 425:

> 423:     }
> 424: 
> 425:     public int run(String[] args, PrintStream out) throws Exception {

Is this run() method used outside of this class, and thus the scope change?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15951#discussion_r1366269790



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