Java.io.File.equals()

Is this correct bevior? If I create two instances of java.io.File, one for
/usr/file.txt
and another for
/usr/local/../file.txt
my operating system retrieves the same file, however, the java.io.File.equals() method returns false, saying that these are not equal.
Does the equal() method compare them as path strings?

It all the way traces up the the FileSystem native call, and the comment of it is
* Compare two abstract pathnames lexicographically.
public abstract int compare(File f1, File f2);--lichu

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