RFR: 8250968: Symlinks attributes not preserved when using jarsigner on zip files

[Weijun Wang]

Are you going to update the warning text or create a new one?

Thanks,
Max

> On Aug 26, 2020, at 2:26 PM, Seán Coffey <sean.coffey at oracle.com> wrote:
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> This is a follow on from the recent 8218021 fix. The jarsigner tool removes symlink attribute data from zipfiles when signing them. jarsigner should preserve this data. The fix involves preserving the 16 bits associated with the file attributes (instead of the current 12). That's done in ZipFile. All other changes are just a refactor of the variable name.
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> I haven't been able to automate a test for this since zipfs doesn't seem to support symlinks. Manual testing looks good.
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> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8250968
> http://hmsjpse.uk.oracle.com/home/scoffey/ws/jdk-jdk/open/webrev.8250968/webrev/index.html
> 
> regards,
> Sean.
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