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Strange behaviour for 32 bit exported application [message #1073187]

Wed, 24 July 2013 09:32

Balint Pamer

Messages: 3
Registered: June 2013

Junior Member

Hello!

On our project, we have stumbled on a very strange (windows specific) behaviour:
When attempting to save a file as a regular user to the drive C root (e.g.: C:\file.txt), we get the expected access denied exception (as admin rights are needed), when run from eclipse.
But after exporting the application as a 32 bit executable and running it, no exception is thrown!

Attached is a small demo application, exhibiting the problem:
On the program start, it calls the following code (samplepart.java):

            FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("C:\\asd.txt");
            out.close();

When run from eclipse, the new FileOutputStream-line will throw the expected exception.
When exported as a 32 bit .exe, no exception is thrown!

Tracing the code of the FileOutputStream constructor, I ended up seeing the exception coming from a native open()-call, so am pretty much stuck.

I could not reproduce this issue with a regular java application, exported as a .jar.

Can anyone help me further?

Thanks:
Balint Pamer

Edit:
Looking around with process monitor, I'm seeing actual differences between running from eclipse and from an exported application:
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