RFR 8164705: Remove pathname canonicalization from FilePermission

[Brian Burkhalter]

At the API level and conceptually this all appears reasonable. I am going to need to take a deeper pass over it all however to comprehend the implementation at any kind of detailed level. The changes mentioned in response to Alan’s comments all appear good.

Thanks,

Brian

On Sep 1, 2016, at 7:25 AM, Weijun Wang <weijun.wang at oracle.com> wrote:

> Webrev updated at
> 
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8164705/webrev.01
> 
> Most suggestions from Alan accepted, including:
> 
> 1. Using SharedSecrets.getJavaIOFilePermissionAccess() style instead of public functions.
> 
> 2. jdk.io.permissionsUseCanonicalPath=<boolean>.
> 
> 3. samepath.sh rewritten in ReadFileOnPath.java.
> 
> Still using "ugly" method names. Thinking they are clear enough.