Review request #1: 6863566 (Java should support the freedesktop.org startup notification specification) (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Fri Oct 16 13:41:08 UTC 2009

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 04:21, Michael McMahon <Michael.McMahon at sun.com> wrote:

Damjan Jovanovic wrote:

"environment variables which are not modified by Java code will have  an unmodified native representation in the subprocess."

The intent of that statement is to promise not to mangle environment variables that cannot be represented as a String, perhaps because they contain undecodable binary data. IIRC, bash doesn't get this right.

I wonder if it might make sense to change this, so that some kind of default filtering could be applied? I don't know if it warrants a new API to do this, but maybe a system property could define a list of environment variables that are not passed to child processes. And this could be used in the desktop launcher scripts.

I continue to resist the addition of such a global mechanism.

Martin

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