RFR: 8370633: Remove dead code for Windows file path canonicalization functions

Alan Bateman alanb at openjdk.org
Sat Oct 25 06:55:04 UTC 2025


On Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:21:38 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Remove the unused, vestigial functions `wcanonicalizeWithPrefix` and `Java_java_io_WinNTFileSystem_canonicalizeWithPrefix0`. With this change, the build in the CI succeeds on Windows.

I think this dates from needing both a Win32FileSystem and WinNTFileSystem, so shouldn't be needed anymore. Can you make sure to do a test run with the changes? (a build test isn't enough).

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27981#issuecomment-3446018528


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