<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Kumar Srinivasan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com" target="_blank">kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <div>On 4/10/2015 11:57 AM, Martin Buchholz
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 10:33 AM,
            Kumar Srinivasan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com" target="_blank">kumar.x.srinivasan@oracle.com</a>></span>
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                      <div>I don't get it.  Either providing this
                        information (what "java program" is running -
                        main class and/or command line) is generally
                        useful or it is not.  There's nothing
                        macosx-specific about it.  Either provide a
                        clean blessed api (i.e. not an environment
                        variable) and have </div>
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                </span> Are you equating environment variable to system
                property ?</div>
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            <div>The environment variable is particularly bad because it
              is just a private communication mechanism, but one that is
              even visible to subprocesses.  A proper documented
              supported public cross-platform API would be fine, and
              that would include a system property.</div>
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            <div>I now see my jdk9 has a system property</div>
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            <div>sun.java.command=<name><br>
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            <div>Why can't AWT use that?  <br>
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    It relates to the comment I have below, look at:<br>
<a href="http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/84c5527f742b/src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c#l1412" target="_blank">http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk/file/84c5527f742b/src/java.base/share/native/libjli/java.c#l1412</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm confused.  Comments in java.c suggest that  sun.java.command is not exposed to java land, but my test program clearly tells me it's there!  (with jdk9-b57)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>