Re: Endless recursion when using SecurityManager

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Thomas Hallgren writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > 
 > >Thomas Hallgren writes:
 > > > I'm trying to use a custom SecurityManager but as soon as I install it 
 > > > (or any other SecurityManager) using the System.setSecurityManager 
 > > > method, I get what seems to be an endless recursion. On the stack I see 
 > > > Class.getClassLoader calling ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader which in 
 > > > turn seems to call Class.getClassLoader again.
 > > > 
 > > > Since I don't know what the current state of the security features in 
 > > > gcj was/is, I thought I'd ask here before devoting more time to it. Is 
 > > > this a known issue?
 > >
 > >Yes.  It's fixed in 4.0 (pre release).
 > >
 > >Andrew.
 > >  
 > >
 > Terriffic. I'm eager to try it out.
 > 
 > Is there a good place to find a precompiled 4.0 for fc3 on i386?

Try http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/gcc4-java-4.0.0-0.27.i386.rpm

I think it's in there.

 > If not, can I find a source bundle somewhere or should I use CVS?
 > If CVS, does this pre-release have a tag? The reason I ask is that
 > I find very little info about where to get 4.0 on the
 > gcc.gnu.org/java website.

There's no 4.0 pre tag yet.  This is very Alpha.

Andrew.