Bug 26620

Description Jim Sculley 2002-11-18 18:08:24 EST

When environment variables are included in the parameters passed to the VM by a
Launch Configuration, they are not expanded.  Here is a simple example:


Create the follwing class:

public class EnvBug {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(System.getProperty("test.foo.bar"));
    }
}

Run the class from the command line and from within Eclipse with this VM parameter:

-Dtest.foo.bar=foobar

The code works as expected with the output:

foobar

Next create an environment variable FOO_BAR like this:

export FOO_BAR=foobar

Now run the code from a command line and from within Eclipse with this VM parameter:

-Dtest.foo.bar=$FOO_BAR

The command line code works as expected, but the output from Eclipse is:

$FOO_BAR

which clearly indicates that the environment variable is not being properly
expanded.

I have not tested this on platforms other than Linux, so I do not know if other
OSen are affected.