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Begin forwarded message: > From: Brian Burkhalter <[email protected]> > Subject: [9] RFR JDK-8068373: (prefs) FileSystemPreferences writes \0 to XML > storage, causing loss of all preferences > Date: February 12, 2015 at 1:01:43 PM PST > To: Core-Libs-Dev <[email protected]> > > Hello, > > Based on previous discussions this thread which used to be an RFC is now an > RFR. Thanks to Paul and Roger for comments. > > Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8068373 > Patch: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8068373/webrev.04/ > > Historical variants may be seen here: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8068373/ > > One problem (or not) with this approach is that old FileSystemPreferences > caches which already contain U+0000 will still cause a failure on reading in > Java 9+ but perhaps we do not care. > > Thanks, > > Brian
