RFR JDK-8186464: ZipFile cannot read some InfoZip ZIP64 zip files

[Xueming Shen]

On 8/22/17, 5:54 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 3:27 PM, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen at oracle.com 
> <mailto:xueming.shen at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     How about to add an option to our zipfs to force the ZIP64 end
>     record when
>     enabled. Harmless if not specified.
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> I agree that adding more options for testability is good.  Since our 
> users are likely to need such things as well, I'd also like to see 
> such features become public, analogous to zip's -fz- flag.
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> OTOH, interoperability testing is very valuable, so despite the 
> troubles involved writing tests that involve both jdk and zipinfo 
> code, I think we should do it.
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>     Just try to avoid adding yet another shell test case ...
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> shell tests are frowned upon these days.  Must use processutils?
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> Maybe we could actually collaborate and I contribute some test code?

that would be really appreciated :-)
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> Still haven't actually looked at your webrev ...