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Niall Pemberton resolved IO-254.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
The main purpose of this method is to compare the contents of files which do
exist. It needs to gracefully handle non-existent files, which it does. Its an
edge case comparing the content of two non-existent files and you could argue
it either way. Its worked this way since IO 1.0 and the comment in the code
clearly indicates it was intentional and therefore I don't think we should be
changed.
> FileUtils.contentEquals returns true for equal file names, but file is
> actually not existing
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> Key: IO-254
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-254
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: Bug
> Environment: windows and linux
> Reporter: Dmitry Kan
> Priority: Trivial
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> It is said in the documentation, that:
> "This method checks to see if the two files are different lengths or if they
> point to the same file, before resorting to byte-by-byte comparison of the
> contents. "
> Does it make sense to return true when the file does not exist even if
> comparison of a file to itself was attempted?
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