Review request: JDK-6519127 Vista: user.home property not set correctly

[Alexey Utkin]

On 22.01.2013 19:58, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 22/01/2013 15:45, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>> Hi Alexey,
>>
>> The fix looks good from code logic perspective.
>>
>> I'm only concerned with whether we should use the __try/__except 
>> magic, or would it rather make sense to define:
>>
>> #define IS_WINVISTA (LOBYTE(LOWORD(::GetVersion())) >= 6)
>>
>> and guard the call to SHGetKnownFolderPath() with this check? This 
>> seems to be lighter than using the exception handling machinery from 
>> performance perspective, and IMO it would make the code 
>> cleaner/easier to read.
> I guess this comes down to whether Windows XP will still be important 
> when jdk8 ships. I think the current webrev is okay, assuming that 
> CSIDL_FLAG_DONT_VERIFY is a valid flag for SHGetFolderPathW.
>
> Alexey - I assume you'll test on several different editions of Windows 
> before you push this.
>
Yes, I test it on Vista, XP and Win 2000.
Can I push it to JDK8 after?
> -Alan.