RFR: 8074812 More specific error message when the .java_pid well-known file is not secure

Staffan Larsen staffan.larsen at oracle.com
Fri Mar 13 07:38:09 UTC 2015


Martin, Jaroslav: Thank you!

> On 12 mar 2015, at 18:47, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:
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> Looks good to me!
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> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 12:18 AM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com <mailto:staffan.larsen at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>> On 11 mar 2015, at 20:37, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com <mailto:martinrb at google.com>> wrote:
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>> Producing good error messages is such hard work!
> 
> Aye. And so often forgotten.
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>> 
>> Instead of 0%3o, use 0%03o
>> Since you want to print the lowest 9 bits of the mode, don't you want & 0x1ff
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> Absolutely. I opted for the octal representation 0777 instead which seemed fitting here.
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> new webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8074812/webrev.02/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8074812/webrev.02/>
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> Thanks,
> /Staffan
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> 
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>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 2:30 AM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com <mailto:staffan.larsen at oracle.com>> wrote:
>> Thanks for the feedback. Here is a new version that prints out more details for each of the errors messages. Let me know if you have suggestions for better wording. It also adds an #include for jvm.h that was missing from some of the files (it is needed for jio_snprintf).
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>> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8074812/webrev.01/ <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8074812/webrev.01/>
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>> /Staffan
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>>> On 10 mar 2015, at 19:07, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com <mailto:martinrb at google.com>> wrote:
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>>> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Jaroslav Bachorik <jaroslav.bachorik at oracle.com <mailto:jaroslav.bachorik at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>>> This just got me thinking - would including [sb.st_uid, uid] and [sb.st_gid, gid] in the error message be of any additional benefit?
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>>> Yes.  How much do you want to improve the quality of error messages?
>>> 
>>> You could use the word "effective" only when effective and real users don't match.
>>> You could print out the two mismatched values. 
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