RFR: 8286444: javac errors after JDK-8251329 are not helpful enough to find root cause

Mon May 9 22:36:51 UTC 2022

On Mon, 9 May 2022 22:10:54 GMT, Christoph Langer <clanger at openjdk.org> wrote:

> After https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8251329, javac throws errors when the classpath
> contains jar files with . or .. in its name. The error message, however, does not help to find
> the culprit. This could be improved.

@LanceAndersen @AlanBateman do you think adding the entry name in the exception in ZipFileSystem is ok? If so, should it maybe go into a different patch?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8616