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To be Reviewed By: October 26, 2020

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Numerous Geode classes resolve relative file paths against the JVM’s working directory—the value of the user.dir  system property. Some classes do this explicitly, by resolving paths against the value of user.dir . Other classes refer to to the JVM’s working directory implicitlyindirectly, either by using relative paths or by resolving paths against “.”  or “” .

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Optionally (TBD): These methods can ensure that the returned path is canonical (as defined by the java.io.File  documentation)absolute and normalized, and that it refers to an existing directory.

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