JSR199 FileObjects don't obey general contract of equals.

[Jesse Glick]

Jonathan Gibbons wrote:
> From a historical perspective, the getCanonicalFile code in 
> RegularFileObject can be traced back to the need to do
> case-equivalent filename matching on Windows.

Possibly of interest:

http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6358641

JSR 203 will likely make this possible, but I suppose javac cannot rely 
on that.

-J.

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