RFR: 8355342: File.getCanonicalPath on Java 24 resolves paths on network drives to UNC format [v4]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:32:45 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Are you able to check how it behaves when mapped to a location on different host?

>From issue [JDK-8368165](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8368165):

Path.of("Z:\\link").toRealPath() throws an exception on the Windows host where Z: is mapped to a remote drive on a Mac host via Samba:

| Exception java.nio.file.FileSystemException: Z:\link: The name of the file cannot be resolved by the system
| at WindowsException.translateToIOException (WindowsException.java:92)
| at WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException (WindowsException.java:103)
| at WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException (WindowsException.java:108)
| at WindowsLinkSupport.getFinalPath (WindowsLinkSupport.java:104)
| at WindowsLinkSupport.getRealPath (WindowsLinkSupport.java:271)
| at WindowsPath.toRealPath (WindowsPath.java:944)
| at WindowsPath.toRealPath (WindowsPath.java:42)

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27324#issuecomment-3321745093