https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56785
--- Comment #7 from Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> --- (In reply to Konstantin Kolinko from comment #5) > (In reply to Christopher Schultz from comment #2) > (In reply to Juergen Sussner from comment #0) > > 1) -Duser.dir=/tmp is a wrong way to set that property. The correct way is > to perform "cd /tmp" when launching Tomcat. > > 2) I guess that the issue would happen when some directory in > $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/testapp/WEB-INF/classes is not readable. The > "user.dir" property value is irrelevant. > > Why would you have an unreadable directory in such a place among your > classes? Is there a valid reason for that? > > What if skipped directory contains something important, e.g. a @WebFilter? > I think it is OK to fail fatally and refuse to start such a misconfigured > application. A fatal exception is okay, but right now it's a NPE. I was going to change it to an IOException with a nice error message. Same behavior: just a nicer error message (and it will actually tell you the problem). -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org
