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Bug 194216 Patch in Platform Resources [message #1702237]

Mon, 20 July 2015 22:39

Richard Gobeli

Messages: 18
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

How can I get my patch submitted to git code review?
I am not a committer.

The patch will determine if it is running on a windows system and then turn off the hidden file attribute before writing the description file .project.
This patch is necessary, because java assumes that a hidden file should not be writable. Windows intent was not to make hidden files write protected, but to hide them from the user so they could not damage them. The windows system could still write to hidden files, because it would know the file name to find them.
Importing a project form a Mac system will have all . files hidden. This will make it not possible to rename the project, because the .project descriptor file isn't writable due to file having hidden attribute set.

Richard

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