RFR: 8144220: UL does not support full path names for log files on windows

Marcus Larsson marcus.larsson at oracle.com
Wed Dec 2 14:28:01 UTC 2015


Hi Bengt,

Thanks for looking at this.

On 2015-12-02 14:59, Bengt Rutisson wrote:
>
> Hi Marcus,
>
> On 2015-12-02 14:41, Marcus Larsson wrote:
>>  Hi,
>>
>> Please review the following patch to allow full path names for log 
>> files on windows.
>>
>> The full path to files will on windows contain a colon (from the C:\ 
>> part), and there used to be no way to avoid that colon from being 
>> parsed as the delimiter for the next -Xlog: option. With this patch 
>> it is now possible to avoid this by giving the path within quotation 
>> marks, for example: -Xlog:all:"C:\out.log". Any colons within quotes 
>> will not be parsed as delimiters for -Xlog.
>>
>> Webrev:
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mlarsson/8144220/webrev.00/
>
> As far as I can tell this looks good.
>
> I would like to have a few more cases in the test though. The way you 
> have designed your test you can easily test for cases that are wrong 
> too. For example non-closed quotes etc.
>
> Could you add a couple of more test cases? Maybe:
>
> -Xlog:all=trace:"
> -Xlog:all=trace:""
> -Xlog:all=trace:"""

Good point, I'll add more cases to the test.

I actually wrote some unit tests for this as well, so there are a few 
additional tests waiting to be checked in once we have unit test support.

Thanks,
Marcus

>
> Thanks,
> Bengt
>
>>
>> Issue:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144220
>>
>> Testing:
>> New test through RBT.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marcus
>



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