file.exists returns different results on Windows versus Linux

Question

I know it's technically a bug to append whitespace around file names, but I'd just like to know why the following code returns true on Windows, but false on Linux:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    File file = new File("some_file_that_exists ");  // note the whitespace at the end
    System.out.println(file.exists());
}

I'm using Windows 7 64-bit with jdk1.6.0_31, and retried on Linux 2.6.18 with jdk1.6.0_06. Note that the file does not have a space at the end of its name.

Answer 1

This should be because windows does not allow space at end, and when java calls OS, OS removes/does not consider space at end.

Whereas, linux allows space at end, so it does exact check and tries to find file with spaces at end of file name.