On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 10:19:19PM +0100, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Thank you for the update. It's safe to assume the date always follow the > comment specified, the Javadoc for the store() method states: > > "Next, a comment line is always written, consisting of an ASCII # > character, the current date and time (as if produced by the toString > method of Date for the current time), and a line separator as generated > by the Writer."
Sweet. > The call to Arrays.sort() isn't necessary but it doesn't hurt. I couldn't see any evidence that the properties would always come out in the same order; it looks like it defers to Hashtable, which definitely doesn't have defined iteration order (in theory, but probably does in practice (unless any of that security-driven randomized hashCode stuff went in (which I can't see any evidence of))). __ This is the maintainer address of Debian's Java team <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-java-maintainers>. Please use debian-j...@lists.debian.org for discussions and questions.
