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Diffstat (limited to 'l10ntools/source/help/HelpIndexerTool.java')
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diff --git a/l10ntools/source/help/HelpIndexerTool.java b/l10ntools/source/help/HelpIndexerTool.java index a39b5399e38d..c20d9f108ced 100644 --- a/l10ntools/source/help/HelpIndexerTool.java +++ b/l10ntools/source/help/HelpIndexerTool.java @@ -45,6 +45,15 @@ import java.io.FileNotFoundException; import java.io.IOException; import java.util.Date; + +/** + When this tool is used with long path names on Windows, that is paths which start + with \\?\, then the caller must make sure that the path is unique. This is achieved + by removing '.' and '..' from the path. Paths which are created by + osl_getSystemPathFromFileURL fulfill this requirement. This is necessary because + lucene is patched to not use File.getCanonicalPath. See long_path.patch in the lucene + module. + */ public class HelpIndexerTool { public HelpIndexerTool() |