RFR: 8318971: Better Error Handling for Jar Tool Processing of "@File" [v5]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:18:23 GMT, Ryan Wallace <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Please review this fix for jar tool not producing an archive if there is a missing file supplied.
>> The current behaviour will recognise missing files as an error but continue processing,
>> creating a temporary archive and then deleting it without moving to the current directory.
>> The fix is to return false when a missing file is supplied and exit immediately without continuing with any wasted processing.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan.
>
> Ryan Wallace has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains ten additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8318971
>  - 8318971: Better Error Handling for Jar Tool Processing of "@File"
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8318971
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8318971
>  - 8318971: jar v17 should either exit on error immediately or create archive as jar v1.8 did
>  - 8318971: jar v17 should either exit on error immediately or create archive as jar v1.8 did
>  - Merge branch 'master' into 8318971
>  - 8318971: jar v17 should either exit on error immediately or create archive as jar v1.8 did
>  - 8318971: jar v17 should either exit on error immediately or create archive as jar v1.8 did

Hello Ryan, I haven't yet had a chance to fully focus on this PR to review. I will do it in the coming days. I think it would anyway be better to have this change done only after the JDK 22 repo is forked. That will then give it some time to be tested in 23 EA releases.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16423#issuecomment-1833611026