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

Dan Xu dan.xu at oracle.com
Thu May 2 23:08:37 UTC 2013


Hi All,

Thanks for all your comments. Based on the previous feedback, I have 
moved to the other approach, i.e., to fail file operations if the 
invalid NUL characher is found in a file path. As you know, due to the 
compatibility issue, we cannot throw an exception immediately in the 
File constructors. So the failure is delayed and only shown up when any 
file operation is triggered.

As for FileInputStream, FileOutputStream, and RandomAccessFile classes, 
the FileNotFoundException will be thrown right away since their spec 
allow this exception happen in the constructors. Thanks for your review!

webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dxu/8003992/webrev.01/

-Dan




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