Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Afair icedtea, openjdk, jdk share a Lot of Code. Am 16.01.2013 15:18 schrieb "Michael Mol" : > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell > wrote: > > On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: > >>> I'm cur

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-16 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Daniel Campbell wrote: > On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: >>> I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I >>> would think that since the icedtea vm

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Daniel Campbell
On 01/15/2013 11:32 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: >> I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I >> would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle >> one and so I don't think

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Wednesday 16 January 2013 10:32:11 AM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote: > I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I > would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle > one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an > exploi

Re: [gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread Kevin Brandstatter
I'm curious as well about the potential exploitability of icedtea. I would think that since the icedtea vm is not the same as the sun/oracle one and so I don't think the code base is the same, which would mean an exploit in the sun/oracle jvm would not necessarily affect icedtea. However, I know ve

[gentoo-user] java vs icedtea6

2013-01-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Looking for comments: A while back I removed java during an upgrade on my main desktop system and left icedtea6-bin in place without any noticeable effect. Presumably icedtea6 suffers the same java bug (cant find anything in their bugzilla though?) thats got everybody riled at the moment, though