Thanks Erik for correcting me,

I feel a bit stupid: I actually looked at the api to make sure that I 
wasn't in left field, but I trusted common-sense and stopped at the 
constructor ;)

Should this property be changed in the next major release of lucene to 
org.apache...disableLuceneLocks?

sv

On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Erik Hatcher wrote:

> 
> On Aug 23, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Stephane James Vaucher wrote:
> > I haven't used it, and I'm a little confused from the code:
> > /** ...
> >  * <p>If the system property 'disableLuceneLocks' has the String value 
> > of
> >  * "true", lock creation will be disabled.
> >  */
> > public final class FSDirectory extends Directory {
> >   private static final boolean DISABLE_LOCKS =
> >       Boolean.getBoolean("disableLuceneLocks") || Constants.JAVA_1_1;
> > ...
> >
> > I don't see a System.getProperty(String).
> 
> :)
> 
> check the javadocs for Boolean.getBoolean()
> 
> It's by far one on of the dumbest and most confusing API's ever!  
> (basically this does a System.getProperty("disableLuceneLocks") and 
> converts it to a boolean.
> 
>       Erik
> 
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