RFR: 8262004: Classpath separator: Man page says semicolon; should be colon on Linux

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 4 May 2022 09:28:22 GMT, Adam Sotona <asotona at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Man file for the java command in JDK, the arguments such as -classpath, --module-path and --upgrade-module-path say "A semicolon (;) separated list of directories"
> 
> Please review this fix correcting the text to "A colon (:) separated list of directories".
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam

Hi @asotona,
The actual source for this is in our closed repository and while this is a manpage and arguably non-Windows, the actual source produces other output variations that are platform agnostic. So we actually need to fix this at a higher-level and clarify that the path separator is actually platform specific.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8530