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RE: Implementation details of VMStackWalker


From: Andrew Haley
Subject: RE: Implementation details of VMStackWalker
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 10:32:10 +0100

Jeroen Frijters writes:
 > Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > Which is the Right Answer: the caller of baz *is* Frob.
 > 
 > It *may* be the right answer, but how can you be certain that the
 > coder of class Foo intended this?

Ah, well that is a totally different matter.

 > IMNSHO, code like this is completely unauditable (remember, this
 > isn't just a correctness issue, access to class loaders is a
 > potential security issue).

Of course, yes.  But it's security issues that I'm concerned about
here: what we want to know is the first caller of Foo.method() that is
not Foo.

Andrew.




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