Re: Bug-to-bug compatibility - first issue

I agree with you that it is natural to copy RI behavior in this case, 
and I even don't think this is a bug, in the same reason with one of the 
bugs' evaluation [1],

<quote>An empty path component is always (in both Unix/Posix-like and Windows systems) treated 
as "."</quote>


Arzhan Kinzhalin wrote:
> > URLClassLoader can't load this class because searchURLs parameter in
> > findClassImpl does not contain current directory and includes only
> > "p:/". So, IMO problem is inside VM kernel classes.
> >
> > What do you think we should do with this issue?
> >     
>
> It actually has corresponding bug report [1] which provides some
> background to the story.
>
> Names and behaviour of command-line arguments is not a part of the
> spec. It's just that everyone follows well-established conventions. In
> this case it would seem natural to copy the behavior.
>
> [1] http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4515984
>
> --
> Arzhan
> Intel Middleware Products Division
>
>   


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