Getting a live view of environment variables (Gradle and JDK 9)

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/05/2017 09:35, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

> :
> I agree with Daivid that my expectation for the method System.getenv
> would be that it calls native code every time it is invoked assuming
> that the Javadoc didn't say otherwise (because environment variables
> are outside the Java universe). As such, the choice to snapshot looks
> like a significant change in behaviour, and thus compatibility.
FWIW, this behavior goes back a long time, I think it was JDK 5 when 
this re-worked (by Martin). Since then there have been one or two 
"surprises" when something changes to call System.getenv earlier than 
before.

-Alan