7027900: (fs) glob syntax under-specified

Clarify how leading dots are treated in nio2 glob

Reviewed-by: alanb
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Xueming Shen 2011-04-18 21:44:03 -07:00
parent 7d2db524ac
commit 2da9c4454a

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@ -391,6 +391,13 @@ public abstract class FileSystem
* character is used to separate the subpatterns. Groups cannot be nested.
* </p></li>
*
* <li><p> Leading period<tt>&#47;</tt>dot characters in file name are
* treated as regular characters in match operations. For example,
* the {@code "*"} glob pattern matches file name {@code ".login"}.
* The {@link Files#isHidden} method may be used to test whether a file
* is considered hidden.
* </p></li>
*
* <li><p> All other characters match themselves in an implementation
* dependent manner. This includes characters representing any {@link
* FileSystem#getSeparator name-separators}. </p></li>