Preventing System.exit() from API

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There is a blog post here,

http://jroller.com/ethdsy/entry/disabling_system_exit

Basically it installs a security manager which disables System.exit() with code from here,

  private static class ExitTrappedException extends SecurityException { }

  private static void forbidSystemExitCall() {
    final SecurityManager securityManager = new SecurityManager() {
      public void checkPermission( Permission permission ) {
        if( "exitVM".equals( permission.getName() ) ) {
          throw new ExitTrappedException() ;
        }
      }
    } ;
    System.setSecurityManager( securityManager ) ;
  }

  private static void enableSystemExitCall() {
    System.setSecurityManager( null ) ;
  }

Edit: Max points out in comments below that

as of Java 6, the permission name is actually “exitVM.”+status, e.g. “exitVM.0”.

However, the permission exitVM.* refers to all exit statuses, and exitVM is retained as a shorthand for exitVM.*, so the above code still works (see the documentation for RuntimePermission).

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