new File(parent, child) when child is absolute (original) (raw)

Weijun Wang weijun.wang at oracle.com
Sat Apr 27 03:14:58 UTC 2013

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I thought that in this case parent is just ignored and it's still the child itself. Turns out this is not true, and

new File("/tmp", "/etc/passwd") is /tmp/etc/passwd

Is this really useful in any way?

Thanks Max

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