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Most of these are only useful for detecting bad format strings that are known at compile-time. If the format string may come from the user or from a source external to the application, the application must validate the format string before using it. Care must also be taken if the application generates or selects format strings on the fly.
The string "localhost" will attempt to access the file as UNC path \\localhost\c:\path\to\the file.txt, which will not work since the colon is not allowed in a share name. The dot "." The dot "." results in the string being passed as \\.\c:\path\to\the file.txt , which will work for local files, but not shares on the local system.
The parent class loader is defined when a new class loader is instantiated or set to the virtual machine's system default class loader. This makes it possible (for example): to load or unload classes at runtime (for example to load libraries dynamically at runtime, even from an HTTP resource). This is an important feature for: