Null-terminated Unicode strings in java.io on Windows

[Krzysztof Żelechowski]

Dnia 25-01-2008, Pt o godzinie 18:44 +0100, Roman Kennke pisze:
> Heyo,
> 
> > > The specification is buggy
> > > > in that it does not take into account the operating system interface 
> > > > and makes correct memory management inefficient 
> > > > for the benefit of sparing one byte per buffer 
> > > > where an OS call is not needed.
> > > > Ridiculous.
> > > 
> > > Tom Tromey pointed out another possible problem on IRC: What if the
> > > string itself contains the 0? Unlikely, but possible in the Java world.
> > 
> > I understand that parameters passed to the OS 
> > are subject to the limitations of the OS.
> > Not containing a zero inside may be just one of them.  
> > The Java specification claims nowhere 
> > that every string can be used to name every object.
> 
> Yeah, but GetStringChars() is a general purpuse JNI function and not at
> all tied to the OS. Passing the string on to the OS for I/O purposes is
> just one use case. Zero-terminating a Java string really doesn't right.
> If you need it zero-terminated, then you can always do this in your code
> by copying over the string in a static buffer or similar (as suggested
> somewhere else in this thread). This is by no means incorrect memory
> management, it only requires a little more thinking.
> 

Static buffers are not reëntrant and unwieldy: 
they are either too large or too small.

It has been argued that excessive copying is inefficient 
and can be easily avoided with proper setup.

Chris