7028468: (fs) FileSystems.getDefault() fails when kernel micro version contains/ends non-numeric characters
Rémi Forax
forax at univ-mlv.fr
Fri Mar 18 05:53:23 PDT 2011
On 03/18/2011 12:16 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
>
> Someone trying out jdk7 on a Linux kernel reporting itself as
> "2.6.38lab" exposed a bug in the version parsing code. Easy to fix,
> but looking at it now, the only reason this code looks the version is
> to know whether the inotify based WatchService can be returned by the
> newWatchService method. My guess is that it should be rare for folks
> still running distributions with kernels older than 2.6.13 (kernel was
> released March 2006). If folks agree then the simplest solution is
> just to remove the version check:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/7028468/webrev/
>
> Thanks,
> Alan.
Looks good.
cheers,
Rémi
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