Endless recursion when using SecurityManager

Tue Feb 22 07:19:00 GMT 2005

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 07:40:59PM +0100, Thomas Hallgren wrote:
> 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?
>> I'm using gcj (GCC) 3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)

This isn't know afaik. We are just beginning to start really working on
the security stuff. So its sure that there are many bugs and missing
features. Please report a bug report with a small testcase to
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/.
Michael