8181295: Document that SecurityManager::checkPackageAccess may be called by the VM

Reviewed-by: mchung
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Sean Mullan 2017-06-19 08:16:03 -04:00
parent 521751020d
commit 04f35f6f89

@ -1496,7 +1496,10 @@ class SecurityManager {
* Throws a {@code SecurityException} if the calling thread is not allowed
* to access the specified package.
* <p>
* This method is called by the {@code loadClass} method of class loaders.
* During class loading, this method may be called by the {@code loadClass}
* method of class loaders and by the Java Virtual Machine to ensure that
* the caller is allowed to access the package of the class that is
* being loaded.
* <p>
* This method checks if the specified package starts with or equals
* any of the packages in the {@code package.access} Security Property.