I had a policy file containing something like

grant signedBy "signature" {
  permission java.io.FilePermission "Y:\\Data\\-", "read,write,delete";
};

Then I loaded it into the java policy tool edited something and saved it.
reloaded the file and undid the previous change.
The result was something like the following:

grant signedBy "signature" {
  permission java.io.FilePermission "Y:Data-", "read,write,delete";
};


each save removes one level of \ from each use in the paths
- so it looks like the string parsing is seeing \ as an escape, as we
know by putting in \\ in the first place - but the file *reading* isn't
turning the resulting \ back into a \\ when it re-saves it, so that this
happens?
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