JDK 9 RFR of 8162624: (fs) Remove FileTypeDetectors based on libgio and libmagic

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Wed Jul 27 16:47:10 UTC 2016


On 27/07/2016 17:36, Brian Burkhalter wrote:

> Please review at your convenience.
>
> Issue:	https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8162624
> Patch:	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8162624/webrev.00/
>
> Remove GioFileTypeDetector and MagicFileTypeDetector as these seem not to provide significant value, introduce unpredictability into the result of file probing, and are inconsistent with the other principle server side platform Solaris.
>
>
This looks okay to me, particular the GIO based one as that has been 
very problematic.

-Alan


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