Do you have a reference to the bug? This is still a very early version of java 7. It would be good to update it.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Jesse Glick <typr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/05/2013 07:30 PM, sebb wrote: > >> a pure Java application should not be able to cause a JVM crash >> > > Depends entirely on what you mean by “pure Java application”. When you > have filesystem and Process access, you can do whatever the user shell > account can do, which certainly includes triggering native errors. > > At any rate I personally agree that using java.util.zip in this way should > not cause JVM crashes—but it does, and the JDK team has explicitly decided > that this is “not a bug” and closed discussion. The workaround, or > depending on your perspective the fix, is to ensure that you do not clobber > an open ZIP file (which would also prevent a lock error on Windows). >
