RFR: 8172346 sun.net.ftp.FtpDirEntry.setCreated(Date) may expose internal represent

[Chris Hegarty]

On 24 Jul 2018, at 10:55, vyom tewari <vyom.tewari at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Please review below a trivial fix.
> 
> Webrev : http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vtewari/8172346/webrev0.0/index.html
> 
> BugID: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8172346
> 
> The above code change will avoid storing the externally mutable object reference into FtpDirEntry.

Is this defensive coding really needed here, given that the
class is internal and only ever used by the FTP URL protocol
handler?

If it is not really needed, then maybe we just close the bug as
‘not an issue’.

-Chris.