RFR: 8366102: Clarification Needed: Symbolic Link Handling in File API Specifications [v3]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 16:05:31 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Attempt to improve the verbiage of the `java.io.File` specification to make it clearer whether a given method operates only on an abstract pathname or on the actual file system entry it denotes.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8366102: pathnam -> pathname

> So a suggestion [...] is to have the methods that access the file system use "the file located by this abstract pathname"

That definitely is more precise to me. So changed in 6d3587e.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27006#issuecomment-3246672226