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| Summary: | Environment variables with separators cause IOExceptions | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | platform | Reporter: | foliver <foliver> |
| Component: | -- Other -- | Assignee: | Petr Nejedly <pnejedly> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | ||
| Severity: | blocker | ||
| Priority: | P4 | ||
| Version: | 4.x | ||
| Hardware: | Sun | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: | Exception stack dumped by netbeans at IOException | ||
Created attachment 18963 [details]
Exception stack dumped by netbeans at IOException
The expeiton come from java.io package. This is maybe problem of JDK. It is only netbeans problem ? Tries do to set the variable in other java application ? As indicated by the stack listing, the exception is thrown
explicitly by netbeans at
org.netbeans.core.NbTopManager.readEnvMap(NbTopManager.java:573)
This method contains something like:
if (cc == sep) {
throw new IOException(
"Environment variable name starting with '"
+ key + "' contained the separator (char)" +
(int)sep);
}
In /bin/csh, doing this before starting netbeans will cause the
problem:
setenv LIST " a \
b \
c"
Is it allowed to have separators in env variables? Reassigning for evaluation. Petr, please look at this, thanks. > Is it allowed to have separators in env variables?
Generally, yes. Strange it doesn't fail on IFS.
Anyway, upgrading to JDK1.5 will fix your problem as it has the API
for enviroment access.
I'm closing this as WONTFIX as it is generally impossible to parse the
enviroment with separators properly (imagine a\nb=bb\nc) and there is
a superior solution already.
closing. |
Environment variables may contain separators, e.g. with csh: set list=( a \ b \ c ) setenv LIST "$list" When netbeans encounters this in the environment, it throws an IOException.