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Re: Patch: security provider discovery
- To: green at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Patch: security provider discovery
- From: Bryce McKinlay <bryce at waitaki dot otago dot ac dot nz>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 18:04:23 +1200
- CC: java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200109230028.RAA22230@fencer.cygnus.com>
Anthony Green wrote:
>This patch does two thing..
>
>(1) makes the security provider property file "gcj.security" instead
> of "classpath.security" on the theory that other VM's may be using
> classpath.security and they will likely want different providers.
>
Why would different VMs need different providers? Won't the same
security providers work for GCJ as well as other classpath VMs? It seems
like an advantage to me to be sharing the same file.
>(2) fixes a bug in loading multiple providers. Instead of trying
> security.provider.1, security.provider.2, security.provider.3, ...
> it was trying
> security.provider.1, security.provider.12, security.provider.123, ...
>
This part is fine.
regards
Bryce.