Review Request for JDK-8003992: File and other classes in java.io do not handle embedded nulls properly

[Alan Bateman]

On 27/02/2013 02:31, Dan Xu wrote:
> Thank you, Mike.
>
> The reason not to throw out an exception is for the backward 
> compatibility. Due to that, the constructorof File object with NUL 
> willnever fail.While in NIO, it is defined in the spec to throw out 
> exceptions when invalid NUL character is found.
>
> -Dan
Right, we can't change the constructor to throw an exception, 
particularly if this fix is going to be back-ported to 7u. For NIO then 
it's not an issue because getPath was specified from the begining to 
throw the unexpected InvalidPathException when it is given garbage.

-Alan.