A bug in filesystem bootstrap (unix/ linux) prevents

[Ulf Zibis]

Hi,

There is a similar bug:
Bug 6795536 <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6795536> - No system start for 
file.encoding=x-SJIS_0213

In this case on Windows.

-Ulf


Am 04.07.2012 14:43, schrieb Dawid Weiss:
> Hi folks.
>
> Run the following with -Dfile.encoding=UTF-16:
>
> public class TestBlah {
>    public static void main(String []) throws Exception {
>      TimeZone.getDefault();
>    }
> }
>
> This on linux (and any unixish system I think) will result in:
>
> java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
> 	at java.nio.file.FileSystems.getDefault(FileSystems.java:176)
> 	at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile$1.run(ZoneInfoFile.java:482)
> 	at sun.util.calendar.ZoneInfoFile$1.run(ZoneInfoFile.java:477)
> ...
>
> There is an encoding-sensitive part calling getBytes on the initial
> path (and this screws it up):
>
>      // package-private
>      UnixFileSystem(UnixFileSystemProvider provider, String dir) {
>          this.provider = provider;
>          this.defaultDirectory = UnixPath.normalizeAndCheck(dir).getBytes();
>          if (this.defaultDirectory[0] != '/') {
>              throw new RuntimeException("default directory must be absolute");
>          }
>
> Filed a bug for this but don't have the ID yet.
>
> Dawid
>