Fw: Patch for File Scanning
Alan Bateman
Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Mon Oct 10 21:38:04 PDT 2011
Mike Skells wrote:
> :
>
> This is not really the introduction of a new class, as there is an
> anonymous class anyway with is being named, so the holder is
> effectively for free in this case
That's a fair point. I'll try to go through the patch soon (but might be
next week as I'm busy with other things this week). On the weak
reference, the reason for it to avoid keeping a reference to the
attributes when storing the Paths in a collection (if you walk a large
file tree and put all paths in a collection for example).
-Alan
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