{PING!} [9] RFR JDK-8068373: (prefs) FileSystemPreferences writes \0 to XML storage, causing loss of all preferences

[Brian Burkhalter]

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-February/031502.html

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> From: Brian Burkhalter <brian.burkhalter at oracle.com>
> Subject: [9] RFR JDK-8068373: (prefs) FileSystemPreferences writes \0 to XML storage, causing loss of all preferences 
> Date: February 12, 2015 at 1:01:43 PM PST
> To: Core-Libs-Dev <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Based on previous discussions this thread which used to be an RFC is now an RFR. Thanks to Paul and Roger for comments.
> 
> Issue:	https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068373
> Patch:	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8068373/webrev.04/
> 
> Historical variants may be seen here: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8068373/
> 
> One problem (or not) with this approach is that old FileSystemPreferences caches which already contain U+0000 will still cause a failure on reading in Java 9+ but perhaps we do not care.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian