java.lang.System: Forbid the modification of read-only system properties

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    • Type: Enhancement
    • Resolution: Unresolved
    • Priority: P4
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    • Affects Version/s: 1.1.6, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 6
    • Component/s: core-libs
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    • Fix Understood
    • generic, x86
    • generic, windows_nt

      Though many system properties are read-only, the VM and the runtime system
      allow them to be set, sometimes with unpredictable if not disastrous results.
      We should identify precisely which system properties are read-only and disallow
      them from being set either on the command line or via the methods in the
      java.lang.System class. -- mr@eng 8/11/1998

            Assignee:
            Mark Reinhold
            Reporter:
            Mark Reinhold
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