RFR(XS): 8133105: Fix getFinalAttributes() on Windows to handle more special cases

Volker Simonis volker.simonis at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 16:57:44 UTC 2015


Hi,

can somebody please review this trivial fix?

Thanks,
Volker


On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 5:27 PM, Volker Simonis <volker.simonis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> can somebody please review the following small fix contributed by
> matthias.baesken at sap.com:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~simonis/webrevs/2015/8133105/
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8133105
>
> Getting file attributes on Windows via GetFileAttributesExW() can fail
> for some special system files. There is already code in
> getFinalAttributes() which handles some of these special cases by
> using FindFirstFileW().
>
> However there are still cases which are not covered until now. For
> example on PGP WDE (Whole Disk Encryption) – encrypted machines the
> test java/io/File/WinSpecialFiles still fails for PGP files like
> C:\pgpwde01. This small change fixes the issue.
>
> Thank you and best regards,
> Volker



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