Bug ID: JDK-7144997 (fs) Files.probeContentType returns null on Solaris 64-bit

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JDK 8
8 b68Fixed

On solaris 64bit machine, run with 64bit java, Files.probeContentType returns right type without -d64 but returns null with -d64

Test to reproduce the issue:
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import java.nio.file.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Basic {

    static Path createHtmlFile() throws IOException {
        Path file = Files.createTempFile("foo", ".html");
        try (OutputStream out = Files.newOutputStream(file)) {
            out.write("<html><body>foo</body></html>".getBytes());
        }

        return file;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

        // exercise default file type detector
        Path file = createHtmlFile();
        try {
            String type = Files.probeContentType(file);
            System.out.println("type=" + type);
            if (type == null) {
                System.err.println("Content type is null, should be text/html");
            } else {
                if (!type.equals("text/html"))
                    throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected type: " + type);
            }

        } finally {
            Files.delete(file);
        }


    }
}


Output without and with -d64 (on same machine)
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bash-3.00$ $JAVA_HOME/bin/java Basic 
type=text/html

bash-3.00$ $JAVA_HOME/bin/java -d64 Basic 
type=null
Content type is null, should be text/html

Verified in b80

26-03-2013

This issue is Solaris 10 64-bit only and therefore not a high priority. The changes proposed for JDK-7142921 will provide a solution although it won't use the GNOME libraries so it means there may be behavior difference between 32-bit and 64-bit.

03-12-2012

EVALUATION The FileTypeDetector that we include on Solaris uses GNOME GIO with fallback the Gnome VFS for older releases. Solaris does not ship with 64-bit versions of these libraries so it essentially means that the JDK does not have a default FileTypeDetector on Solaris 64-bit.

13-02-2012

Relates :	JDK-8008345 - (fs) Files.probeContentType returns null on Mac OS X
Relates :	JDK-7142921 - (fs) Files.probeContentType reports a MIME type of "text/plain" on Ubuntu 11.04