8262004: Classpath separator: Man page says semicolon; should be colon on Linux

[asotona]

Man file for the java command in JDK, the arguments such as -classpath, --module-path and --upgrade-module-path say "A semicolon (;) separated list of directories"

Please review this fix correcting the text to "A colon (:) separated list of directories".

Thanks,
Adam

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• JDK-8262004: Classpath separator: Man page says semicolon; should be colon on Linux

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[dholmes-ora]

Hi @asotona,
The actual source for this is in our closed repository and while this is a manpage and arguably non-Windows, the actual source produces other output variations that are platform agnostic. So we actually need to fix this at a higher-level and clarify that the path separator is actually platform specific.

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Looks good.

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Going to push as commit 015cfda.
Since your change was applied there have been 40 commits pushed to the master branch:

• 9425ab2: 8286153: Remove redundant casts and other cleanup
• 7ebc4bc: 8286066: assert(k != __null) failed: klass not loaded caused by FillerObject_klass
• 6a1b145: 8286029: Add classpath exemption to globals_vectorApiSupport_***.S.inc
• 59ef76a: 8285497: Add system property for Java SE specification maintenance version
• 6d7e446: 8283306: re-resolving indirect call to non-entrant nmethod can crash
• 4957bc7: 8286056: AArch64: clarify uses of MacroAssembler::far_call/MacroAssembler::far_jump
• e7adc28: 8284675: "jpackage.exe" creates application launcher without Windows Application Manfiest
• 9644a31: 8285616: [macos] Incorrect path for launcher-as-service.txt in .cfg file
• 2f995c8: 8286199: ProblemList jdk/jshell/ExternalEditorTest.java
• 2293448: 8272352: Java launcher can not parse Chinese character when system locale is set to UTF-8
• ... and 30 more: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/compare/0462d5a25258458ec7f40d76b9d910ee529f3647...master

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