Thoughts on system properties for startup

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Wed Jun 18 09:50:17 EDT 2014


On 6/18/14, 6:05 AM, "Rod Widdowson" <rdw at steadingsoftware.com> wrote:

>> For Windows, I think one
>> function of the app ctx initializer will need to be the population of
>> an idp.home.normalized property which is idp.home with backslashes
>> replaced with forwardslashes.
>
>There may be and edge case here in which you have to consider the "Dos
>device name" (c: or d: or whatever).  I'd recommend to not worry about
>this
>at this stage - we can always instruct people who are cute to add symbolic
>links of mount points.

I really don't think you ever need to use backslahses anywhere in the IdP.
Java handles forward slashes on Windows, and everything I tested indicated
we would never need to consider backslashes, and just document around that.

-- Scott




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