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Comments: In-reply-to Tim Ellison <t.p.ellison@gmail.com>
   message dated "Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:42:54 +0100."
From: Mark Hindess <mark.hindess@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [jira] Created: (HARMONY-5987) [classlib][luni] - different
 behavior with RI when file path contains "\\" in Linux 
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Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:33:16 +0100


In message <48E1E68E.5070102@gmail.com>, Tim Ellison writes:
>
> Regis wrote:
> > It seems intended to be, but I'm not sure. I think it's a great feature
> > when porting the windows depended code("\\" in path name) to linux, but
> > there is potential problem, how to reference a file which name contians
> > "\\" on linux? And this different may cause surprise when some
> > applications depends on the behavior of RI.
> > 
> > Any comments/suggestions?
> 
> I think we need to change to allow \ to be passed through as part of the
> file name on Linux.

I agree with Tim.  In fact, I noticed this issue a little while ago and
fixed it (plus some invalid tests) in commit r698140.

-Mark.

> > Regis Xu (JIRA) wrote:
> >> [classlib][luni] - different behavior with RI when file path contains
> >> "\\" in Linux
> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ---------
> >>
> >>
> >>                  Key: HARMONY-5987
> >>                  URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HARMONY-5987
> >>              Project: Harmony
> >>           Issue Type: Bug
> >>           Components: Classlib
> >>     Affects Versions: 5.0M7
> >>             Reporter: Regis Xu
> >>              Fix For: 5.0M8
> >>
> >>
> >> Consider the test:
> >>
> >>         File file = new File("d1\\d2");
> >>         file.mkdirs();
> >>
> >> RI create a directory named "d1\d2", while Harmony create two
> >> directories "d1" and "d1/d2", seems RI doesn't covert windows file
> >> separator char "\\" to system separator char on Linux, and
> >> spec says nothing about it. I quickly navigate the source, found we
> >> have a method fixSlashes in java.io.File, which convert "\\" or "/" to
> >> system separator char, so  it may be intended or a feature of harmony?
> >>
> > 
>