Review request: JDK-6519127 Vista: user.home property not set correctly (original) (raw)

Anthony Petrov anthony.petrov at oracle.com
Tue Jan 22 11:14:40 UTC 2013

On 1/22/2013 13:48, Alexey Utkin wrote:

One thing on SHGetKnownFolderPath is that you specify KFFLAGCREATE and I'm not sure if that is right because we don't want the JDK creating the user's directory if it doesn't exist. That is a corner case. In the latest versions of OS, MS is trying to follow "lazy" strategy in everything. Nothing is been instantiating before the first use. But Java needs the home folder. So, we have the right to request the creation. That is OS solution to accept or decline the request.

I agree with Alan. Java shouldn't forcibly create the user directory if it doesn't exist yet. I suggest to pass 0 (zero) as the dwFlags argument to ::SHGetKnownFolderPath(). The same applies to a call to the ::SHGetFolderPathW(). getHomeFromShell32() may return NULL, so let it do so if no user directory exists.

-- best regards, Anthony

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