From 2da9c4454aa3ad663a0ad83a692d2ca65ff0da10 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Xueming Shen <sherman@openjdk.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:44:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] 7027900: (fs) glob syntax under-specified

Clarify how leading dots are treated in nio2 glob

Reviewed-by: alanb
---
 jdk/src/share/classes/java/nio/file/FileSystem.java | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/nio/file/FileSystem.java b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/nio/file/FileSystem.java
index 97dfc4649fc..9091f4aae6e 100644
--- a/jdk/src/share/classes/java/nio/file/FileSystem.java
+++ b/jdk/src/share/classes/java/nio/file/FileSystem.java
@@ -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>