[IO-270] "IllegalArgumentException: Negative time" copying to Windows share

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: Utilities

Environment

Windows 7, Java 64 bit server v1.6.0_22-b04

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Luke Quinane
• Created: 05/May/11 01:27
• Updated: 10/Nov/11 18:35
• Resolved: 10/Nov/11 18:35

Description

A customer reported the following exception to us:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Negative time
      at java.io.File.setLastModified(File.java:1258)
      at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.doCopyFile(FileUtils.java:686)
      at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:653)
      at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.copyFile(FileUtils.java:607)
      at <in house code>

Part of the problem is the exception itself but also our code was expecting FileUtils to throw IOException instead of ISE.