From 34ca87f82b7fbaa5b98cbdf43ab9b61c168c0017 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "ducarroz%netscape.com"
 <ducarroz%netscape.com@18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 14:51:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix for bug 13778, GetFilePrefs now accept also a native path
 to let users write manually their prefs

git-svn-id: svn://10.0.0.236/trunk@47587 18797224-902f-48f8-a5cc-f745e15eee43
---
 mozilla/modules/libpref/src/nsPref.cpp | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/nsPref.cpp b/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/nsPref.cpp
index 53307043866..3b9683bb102 100644
--- a/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/nsPref.cpp
+++ b/mozilla/modules/libpref/src/nsPref.cpp
@@ -757,7 +757,13 @@ NS_IMETHODIMP nsPref::GetFilePref(const char *pref_name, nsIFileSpec** value)
     if (result != PREF_NOERROR)
         return _convertRes(result);
 
+	PRBool valid;
     (*value)->SetPersistentDescriptorString(encodedString);
+    (*value)->IsValid(&valid);
+    if (! valid)
+    	/* if the ecodedString wasn't a valid persitent descriptor, it might be a valid native path*/
+    	(*value)->SetNativePath(encodedString);
+    
     PR_Free(encodedString); // Allocated by PREF_CopyCharPref
     return NS_OK;
 }