Yup:
Frank,
If the File class does not normalize the string used to create the
File, then there is a bug. There seems to be a bug in one version of
Linux and that has been reported to Sun. The constructor for File is
as follows:
public File(String pathname) {
if (pathname == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
this.path = fs.normalize(pathname);
this.prefixLength = fs.prefixLength(this.path);
}
Notice that an object fs is called to normalize the pathname. The
object fs is created as a static field in all File classes as follows:
static private FileSystem fs = FileSystem.getFileSystem();
The FileSystem class is an abstract class that has to be implemented,
of course, for the os on which it exists. So, the basis for the class
is a JNI method:
public static native FileSystem getFileSystem();
Sun did not go to all this trouble without expecting the actual
separators to be normalized to whatever system a file is created on,
so that no matter what your path happens to be in creating a File
object, file.getName() should return the name without a file
separator. Is this helpful?
On 6/9/05, Mihael Knezevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this whole discussion is old. it can be found in the archives. the
> implementation of the jvm on linux FROM SUN is faulty on this one. cause when
> use use a filename like /tmp/mydir/myfile.txt and make a file object of it on
> a windows system and get the name you would get the name myfile.txt though
> the file separator on windows is a backslash, thats ok. but on linux you
> won't get the name from a windows path. i send a bug report to sun. there was
> some misunderstanding and then Dakota Jack <dakota.jack (at) gmail.com> send
> also a bug report to sun. perhaps it is in the bug list by now.
>
> and yes the ie sends the full path. call it a bug or a feature.
>
> just replacing the backslash with a slash won't solve every case but most
> cases.
>
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