jdk14 forbidden and Sun #57591

[Greg Lewis]

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:52:48AM +0900, shudo at computer.org wrote:
> > You're missing that the native Java port is based on 1.4.2.  Not 1.4.2_01,
> > 1.4.2_02, 1.4.2_03, etc.
> >
> > In particular we're based on the 1.4.2 SCSL code release, which was
> > released long before 1.4.2_06.
> 
> Do the core porting members (Alexey and Greg?) have access to Sun's
> current source code of 1.4.2 ?

We have access, but if we read it we are tainted.

> I noticed that you cannot make it and patches to it publicly available
> even if you have access to it.

Exactly, which is why we don't look at it.

Note that the bug is fixed in 1.5, so we're hoping we can figure out the
fix from there.

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