Changes in getCanonical Path behaviour

[Roedy Green]

In the olden days, on Windows, File.getCanonicalPath would look the
file up in the directory and find out its precise case and return that
to you. Now it returns the same thing as getAbsolutePath, echoing the
case of the filename as you gave it.

 

[Chris Smith]

In the olden days, on Windows, File.getCanonicalPath would look the
file up in the directory and find out its precise case and return that
to you. Now it returns the same thing as getAbsolutePath, echoing the
case of the filename as you gave it.

"Now"? I don't see that behavior with Java 1.5.0-b64. On what version
do you see this behavior?

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[Roedy Green]

In the olden days, on Windows, File.getCanonicalPath would look the
file up in the directory and find out its precise case and return that
to you. Now it returns the same thing as getAbsolutePath, echoing the
case of the filename as you gave it.

oops. My mistake. I did not set up the test files correctly. I was
getting results for a non-existent file, which of course has no define
canonical case.