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Bug 71043

Summary:	Do not resolve symbolic links in path
Product:	installer	Reporter:	mslama <mslama>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	Libor Fischmeistr <lfischmeistr>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P2
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:

Description mslama 2006-01-05 14:07:59 UTC

When user enters path with symbolic link on UNIX anywhere in installer GUI
symbolic links are resolved (File.getAbsolutePath()). Solution is not to use
getAbsolutePath or getCanonicalPath. Instead we could try java.net.URI.normalize
to resolve relative path and remove ../ segments from path.

Eg. /home/user/../user should be resolved to /home/user, ../../user should be
resolved to /home/user.

Comment 1 Jiri Rechtacek 2012-10-07 12:59:08 UTC

Assigned to new owner.

Comment 2 Libor Fischmeistr 2013-02-05 07:45:34 UTC

The useful solution could be done using java.nio.file.Path - normalize()

Comment 3 Libor Fischmeistr 2013-03-28 14:02:48 UTC

First attempt in http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/232dcb37e51a

Comment 4 Libor Fischmeistr 2013-04-04 14:31:30 UTC

Fixed in changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/rev/8354c1b7bfc9