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-rw-r--r--libjava/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--libjava/java/io/File.java2
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libjava/ChangeLog b/libjava/ChangeLog
index ccf3346..70dcc67 100644
--- a/libjava/ChangeLog
+++ b/libjava/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2000-02-27 Bryce McKinlay <bryce@albatross.co.nz>
+
+ * java/io/File.java (File(String, String)): For dirPath, treat an
+ empty String the same as `null'.
+
2000-02-26 Anthony Green <green@cygnus.com>
* gnu/gcj/io/MimeTypes.java: Test for null.
diff --git a/libjava/java/io/File.java b/libjava/java/io/File.java
index 184c5e0..c4a4e39 100644
--- a/libjava/java/io/File.java
+++ b/libjava/java/io/File.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public class File implements Serializable
{
if (name == null)
throw new NullPointerException ();
- if (dirPath != null)
+ if (dirPath != null && dirPath.length() > 0)
{
// Try to be smart about the number of separator characters.
if (dirPath.charAt(dirPath.length() - 1) == separatorChar)