java.io.File

[Bryce McKinlay]

Here at last is my long-awaited often-promised patch for bringing the
File class up to 1.3 spec. It also fixes a few bugs I noticed, and
gets rid of canonicalisation of paths for security checks. Doing this
seemed kind of innefficient, at my tests with a custom security
manager showed that doing that is was not consisted with the
JDK implementation.

The win32 changes are incomplete and untested. I tried not to actually
break anything, but since I don't have a build environment set up on
Windows I can't test the changes. Hopefully someone else can fill in
the blanks here?

I'm checking this in.

regards

  [ bryce ]