"Christopher Schultz" <ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote in message news:4a5be03c.7050...@christopherschultz.net... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David, > > On 7/13/2009 8:50 PM, David Smith wrote: >> If you look at all the third party repackages of tomcat that fail, >> you'll see a theme -- symlinks cause problems in java. I would highly >> recommend you find a way to maintain that config file via the build >> system and have a copy in each of the webapps. Either that or put a >> copy in tomcat's lib folder where it becomes accessible to all webapps >> in the environment. > > While I agree with your recommendation for using a more sophisticated > build/deployment process, I disagree with your reasoning. Java and/or > Tomcat should not have any problem reading files via symlinks. As far as > I know, Java's I/O API does not have the ability to distinguish between > symbolic and hard links. I suspect the problem lies elsewhere. >
My first guess is that there is a SecurityManager lurking somewhere to stop the OP from doing: ln -s /etc/passwd > It's possible that the native part of the ClassLoader has some objection > to symlinked files, but I can't imagine that to be true. > > I have never had any problems with symlinks from Java programs in the > past. That doesn't mean that I've seen everything, though. > > John, what is the actual error when the file cannot be found? What > happens if you try to open the file using a FileInputStream instead of > the ClassLoader? > > - -chris > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkpb4DwACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PA3MACdERUerLlhWtgnMlI6ruGLor4/ > UHgAn1myPgqBIMbvMoWJylPdi1fdCteQ > =t8RA > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
