Environment variables truth source of the JVM (and how to mutate it)

[Martin Buchholz]

More info at
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173654


On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

>  providing an unused
> facility to provide access to binary values in the environment.
>
>
The design was to not modify environment variables passed to children even
if they contained binary gibberish and two trip conversion to java String
and back to byte array was lossy.