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Diffstat (limited to 'libjava/java/security')
| -rw-r--r-- | libjava/java/security/BasicPermission.java | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/java/security/BasicPermission.java b/libjava/java/security/BasicPermission.java index 0945f2d..7b98563 100644 --- a/libjava/java/security/BasicPermission.java +++ b/libjava/java/security/BasicPermission.java @@ -80,9 +80,8 @@ public abstract class BasicPermission extends Permission private static final long serialVersionUID = 6279438298436773498L; /** - * Create a new instance with the specified permission name. If the name - * is empty, or contains an illegal wildcard character, an exception is - * thrown. + * Create a new instance with the specified permission name. If the + * name is empty an exception is thrown. * * @param name the name of this permission * @throws NullPointerException if name is null @@ -91,12 +90,11 @@ public abstract class BasicPermission extends Permission public BasicPermission(String name) { super(name); - if (name.indexOf("*") != -1) - { - if ((! name.endsWith(".*") && ! name.equals("*")) - || name.indexOf("*") != name.lastIndexOf("*")) - throw new IllegalArgumentException("Bad wildcard: " + name); - } + + // This routine used to check for illegal wildcards, but no such + // requirement exists in the specification and Sun's runtime + // doesn't appear to do it. + if ("".equals(name)) throw new IllegalArgumentException("Empty name"); } |