<core-libs-dev> New constructor in sun.tools.java.ClassPath builds a path using File.separator instead of File.pathSeparatorChar

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/04/2012 08:01, Deven You wrote:
> Hi core-libs-devs,
>
> There are 2 sun bugs related to this issue:
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do;jsessionid=663548580556affffffffe43f50bf92c75b5?bug_id=6695325^and 
>
> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do;jsessionid=663548580556affffffffe43f50bf92c75b5?bug_id=6610897^ 
>
>
> The basic problem is that the new constructor
>
>     public ClassPath(String[] patharray)  which calls new private method
>
>     private void init(String}[] patharray)
>
> The init method builds a pathstr using File.separator instead of 
> File.pathSeparatorChar.
>
> Since it is really a bug and the fix is simple, I have made a patch[1] 
> for this issue and a test case[2] to recreated this issue.
>
> The patch just uses File.pathSeparatorChar to replace File.separator.
>
> Please anyone can review it?
No issue with the proposed change but I'm curious how you ran into this. 
Is it with rmic or something else?

-Alan