RFR 8048840: File.createTempFile has uninformative failure message

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/07/2014 01:02, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> Here you go (far too lazy to generate a webrev for this. :) )
>
> diff --git a/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java 
> b/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java
> --- a/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java
> +++ b/src/share/classes/java/io/File.java
> @@ -1997,8 +1997,10 @@
>                                        File directory)
>          throws IOException
>      {
> -        if (prefix.length() < 3)
> -            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Prefix string too 
> short");
> +        if (prefix.length() < 3) {
> +            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Prefix string \"" + 
> prefix +
> +                "\" too short: length must be at least 3");
> +        }
>          if (suffix == null)
>              suffix = ".tmp";
>
This looks okay and I see Martin is going to sponsor this.

-Alan