On March 9, 2019 9:09:42 AM UTC, "Guido Jäkel" <g.jae...@dnb.de> wrote: >Dear Mark, > >thank you for comments and hints. I would say I have a wide knowledge >about hard and software. But as I'm not working as a software >developer, I'm not familiar with a lot of things in deep. I also don't >have key-ready workbenches or buildchains. But I'll try to locate the >corresponding commit using web access to the git. May I also contact >you afterwards for further steps? Should I try to open an issue on the >git or should I start a discussion in the Tomcat developer mailing >list? > >Guido > >On 08.03.19 21:58, Mark Thomas wrote: >> On 08/03/2019 11:59, Jäkel, Guido wrote: >>> Good news! >>> >>> I reverted the change and this solve my issue at once, i.e. all >former installed applications will start up as expected. >>> >>> So, please what was the reason or intention here to shift from >getPath() to getCanonicalPath() in case of a link (detected by >!file.isAbsolute() )? What's the motivation to "fully expand" the path >here at Java level instead of delegating this to the underlying OS? >> >> Tomcat is an open source project. git (and svn that we used until >> recently) provides a feature that lets you identify the most recent >> commit associated with any line of code. Every commit includes a log >> message. That is usually where you'd find an explanation for why a >> commit was made. Have you tried looking? >> >> Mark >> >>> >>> greetings >>> >>> Guido >>> >>>> (I'm going to check this out right now) >>>> >>>> May somebody point me to a ticket for the commit of this change >and/or an issue ticket leading to this change? I want to know >>>> the motivation for this change and I want to please to find a >solution to keep the old behavior. Because in my eyes, the current >>>> is inconsistent: For the context naming and so on, the well-known >behavior is kept -- the context is named by the naming of the >>>> link itself and not of it's destination. And therefore, this should >also hold for all other aspects >>>> >>>> > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
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