RFR: 8315034 : File.mkdirs() occasionally fails to create folders on Windows shared folder

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2023 18:11:10 GMT, Weibing Xiao <wxiao at openjdk.org> wrote:

> File.mkdirs() occasionally fails to create folders on Windows shared folders. It turned out that Windows API FindFirstFileW created the error ERROR_NO_MORE_FILES. In some of the cases with a valid file path, this error still returns this error code, which supposedly should not.
> 
> Adding this error code into the method of lastErrorReportable in the native code will be handled by JDK.
> 
> To test the fix, it needs to run three Java processes to create the folders on a remote file server.

Hello Olivier, this has been backported to 11, 17 and 21 update releases but not to JDK 8. I don't closely follow the update releases, so I don't know if there's a reason for that.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/16502#issuecomment-2227348410