JDK 9 doc-api-only RFR of 6791812: (file spec) Incompatible File.lastModified() and setLastModified() for negative time

Stuart Marks stuart.marks at oracle.com
Tue May 23 20:23:50 UTC 2017


On 5/23/17 8:21 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> So I guess this might be satisfy your and Stuart’s comments:
>
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/File.java
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/File.java
> @@ -932,7 +932,9 @@
>      * @return  A <code>long</code> value representing the time the file was
>      *          last modified, measured in milliseconds since the epoch
>      *          (00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970), or <code>0L</code> if the
> -     *          file does not exist or if an I/O error occurs
> +     *          file does not exist or if an I/O error occurs; the value may
> +     *          be negative indicating the number of milliseconds before the epoch

Yes, this looks great. Thanks.

s'marks



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