Name: chT40241 Date: 10/22/97


The problem comes in our use of the following lines of code:
java.io.PrintStream out = System.out;
java.io.PrintStream err = System.err;
try {
System.setOut(null);
System.setErr(null);
} catch (Throwable t) { }
        try {
System.out.println("Print something");
        } catch(Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
try {
System.setOut(out);
System.setErr(err);
} catch (Throwable t) { }
        System.out.println("Print something");

There are two problems. First, setting System.out to null will cause a NullPointerException in System$DelegatingPrintStream because there is no protection on setting the delegate to null.
Second, caching the System.out for later restoration will cause the DelgatingPrintStream to actually delegate to itself. This will cause the next call to System.out.println() to go into an infinitely recursive loop until all stack space is exhausted.

This problem basically kills our use of 1.1.5
======================================================================