RFR: JDK-8319122: Improve documentation of various Zip-file related APIs [v2]

Yakov Shafranovich duke at openjdk.org
Tue Jan 9 21:12:51 UTC 2024


On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 18:11:12 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> That would probably also involve taking existing documentation such as the note about not opening entries with "."/"..", and the POSIX permissions mappings? Would it make sense to split the rest of the changes in this PR from the zipfs changes since that's going to be a bigger undertaking?
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>> That would probably also involve taking existing documentation such as the note about not opening entries with "."/"..", and the POSIX permissions mappings? Would it make sense to split the rest of the changes in this PR from the zipfs changes since that's going to be a bigger undertaking?
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> Yes, I think it should be separated, and it would be nice to drop the changes to jdk.zipfs from this PR. If/when this documentation is written then it describe the "/" character and the synthesized links that are "." and "..", which can lead to documentation that a zip file with name elements of  "." or ".." cannot be opened as a file system.

Removed from this PR

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16424#discussion_r1446615201


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