Early on jlink when provided a non empty directory jlink would fail. That has since been fixed, at least for hidden files such as .DS_Store files.
Chris > On Apr 10, 2017, at 1:35 PM, Rahman USTA <rahman.usta...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I got it, thank you for the explanation. > > 2017-04-10 23:31 GMT+03:00 Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com>: > >> On 10/04/2017 20:35, Rahman USTA wrote: >> >> When using the jlink command if there is a created directory, jlink gives >>> "Error: directory already exists: <path>" output. I remember it was >>> overwriting the files in earlier releases. I think there could be a -f >>> parameter to force overwriting or recreating the output. >>> >>> I don't recall it every overriding as that would be problematic if the >> existing run-time image is in use. If jlink were to blow away the existing >> image then it might cause existing VMs to SIGBUS. On Windows then it won't >> be able to remove all files. Moving the directory to a .bak directory has >> also been looked at but it has issues too. >> >> -Alan >> > > > > -- > Rahman USTA > Istanbul JUG > https://github.com/rahmanusta
