code review request: 7051946: Runtime.exec(String command) / ProcessBuilder command parsing issues (original) (raw)

Michael McMahon michael.x.mcmahon at oracle.com
Wed Sep 14 09:41:52 UTC 2011


On 13/09/11 18:26, Alan Bateman wrote:

Michael McMahon wrote:

Can I get the following webrev reviewed please?

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~michaelm/7051946/webrev.1/ I scanned this briefly (I haven't done a detailed code review) but one initial comment is that Runtime.exec will now throw IllegalArgumenetException for that a case that isn't specified. The current javadoc says it is only thrown "If command is empty" and maybe this needs to be re-examined. I assume such cases would cause IOException to be thrown today. -Alan. We could add a sentence to the existing @throws clause for IAE.

So it would say "If |command| is empty, or on some platforms, may be thrown if command contains illegal characters".

I'm reluctant to be more precise than that, since as far as I know, there doesn't appear to be any illegal characters for filenames in Unix.



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