Endless recursion when using SecurityManager

Tue Feb 22 06:10:00 GMT 2005

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.