RFR: 8003887: File.getCanonicalFile() does not resolve symlinks on MS Windows [v2]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 16:00:53 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
>> 
>>   8003887: Free value allocated in and returned by getFinalPath()
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> src/java.base/windows/classes/java/io/WinNTFileSystem.java line 494:
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>> 492:         }
>> 493:         String canonicalPath = canonicalize0(path);
>> 494:         return getFinalPath(canonicalPath);
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> This needs to be changed to ignore any error in `getFinalPath` and return `canonicalPath` instead.

So changed in 2d6423b.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20801#discussion_r1742720149