RFR: 8287843: File::getCanonicalFile doesn't work for \?\C:\ style paths DOS device paths [v3]

Wed Sep 20 20:22:39 UTC 2023

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 18:10:17 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> In the Windows implementation of java.io.File.getCanonicalPath, strip any long path or UNC prefix before canonicalizing the remainder of the pathname.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8287843: Move \\?\ prefix stripping to resolve(File)

It might be that the long prefix needs to be stripped local to several different methods. Will investigate.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15603#issuecomment-1728370663