<Swing Dev> [9] Review request for 8139394: more detailed message for "Could not initialize shell library"

[Semyon Sadetsky]

On 10/28/2016 10:47 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> On 28.10.16 12:56, Semyon Sadetsky wrote:
>>> If we unsure what information will be contained in the message is it
>>> necessary to provide it to the user? Or it will be enough to describe
>>> the problem in general? For example this message should not contain
>>> something like this:
>>> "The library/module c:/windows/system32/shell.dll cannot be loaded",
>>> if the user have no permission to read the file system.
>> The path is not printed because there always several paths to look for
>> the system module.
>> But I did not get how filesystem read permission is related to the
>> console output.
>
> This is not a console output this is an exception which can be handled. 
Really?
How?
> Filesystem access can be blocked by Securitymanager, access to the 
> system properties can be blocked as well. So we should not expose 
> these data via any other ways, like via the messages from the native 
> errors.
>
> Some useful link:
> http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/seccodeguide-139067.html#2
>