RFR 8037274 : sun.tools.attach.WindowsVirtualMachine#createPipe() needs more descriptive message when pipe creation fails

Peter Allwin peter.allwin at oracle.com
Fri Mar 14 15:46:03 UTC 2014


Also I guess you want to use ‘msg’ on line 277, other than that it looks good to me!

Thanks!
/peter

On 14 Mar 2014, at 16:43, Jaroslav Bachorik <jaroslav.bachorik at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 14.3.2014 16:40, Daniel D. Daugherty wrote:
>> On 3/14/14 9:28 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>>> On 14/03/2014 15:21, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Like this?
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8037274/webrev.03
>>> This looks okay and I assume you've tested this to ensure that the
>>> exception has the message. A minor comment is that we prefer snprintf
>>> over sprintf but the buffer is very over sized here so not an issue.
>>> 
>>> -Alan
>> 
>> I think some of the static security analysis tools will flag use of
>> sprintf() as something that needs to be investigated. Probablybetter
>> to switch to snprintf() to avoid false reports.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> P.S.
>> I _think_ parfait is smart enough not to do this but other
>> static analysis tools may not be.
> 
> Ok. I will change it to snprintf(). Anyway, it is better to have it the way it is usually done.
> 
> -JB-



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