"david.lloyd(a)jboss.com" wrote : Is there a good reason to not allow this? Trying to help users? As I doubt someone intentionally puts '...' or '..somepath' (if this is not legal) into VirtualFile::findChild. At the beginning we didn't even allow '.' or '..', so when I was implementing that, I left some restrictions. If they don't make sense, I can easily remove them. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4187728#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...