On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:59:09 GMT, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:

>> I thought of changing the function to is_writable_directory() as we have far 
>> more "writable" than "writeable" overall. 8-)
>> 
>> src/hotspot/share/runtime/arguments.cpp is maybe the best sample of both 
>> variants.
>> 
>> One online source says, "...writeable is an accepted alternate (often used 
>> in computing), dropping the "e" is the correct grammatical rule...".  But we 
>> are not consistent.
>
> Note I was not intending to comment on the writeable/writable controversy - 
> pick whichever seems appropriate.

I changed them all to writable.  It seems that's a more common spelling.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/31407#discussion_r3387980729

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