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

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Brian,

Makes sense to me;   simple, direct and easy to explain.

Roger

On 2/17/2015 4:56 PM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2015-February/031502.html
>
> Begin forwarded message:
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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