RFR: 8354450: Using a File with a path containing a trailing space should fail when alternative data streams are disabled (win) [v2]

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:22:35 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> From experimentation with C++ code is VS, it appears that `CreateDirectoryW` will create a directory with either a leading or trailing space in its name, whereas `createFileW` will create a file with a leading space in its name, but a trailing space is trimmed.
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>> Right, the Windows APIs are very inconsistent on this, and why the Windows implementation of Path will always reject input where an element has a trailing space.
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> It turns out that a case such as `foo \bar\gus` already fails in `File.mkdirs` due to directory creation itself, so an explicit check for a trailing space in directory elements does not appear to be necessary, although having the failure occur in `isInvalid` would be more fail-fast.

The benefit of doing it before attempting any I/O operation is avoids the unpredictable behavior of the Win32 calls. Otherwise, I think it means through each Win32 call used by WinNTFileSystem and seeing how it behaves.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24635#discussion_r2060283293