RFR: 8338626: CDS handling of JAR Class-Path attribute should allow / separator on Windows

[Calvin Cheung]

On Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:30:13 GMT, David Holmes <dholmes at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> To me it sounds like the logic should be always using `/` to locate and then use file_seperator to rewrite to a classpath filesystem entry.
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> No strike that, the logic is more complex.
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>> Before the patch, on Windows, it only works with '\' (the default file separator). e.g. java -cp dir1\A.jar ... .
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> So you want to be able to process the classpath if it uses `/` instead of `` on Windows? Is that how classpath processing normally works on Windows?
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> The JBS issue says it is fixing the processing of the Class-path attribute, not the processing of the classpath entries. Or maybe I have just misconstrued exactly what this is fixing - the Class-path attribute itself is immaterial here??

To better describe what we're fixing, how about changing the JBS title to the following?
`CDS: allow the use of / separator on Windows to locate entries from the Class-Path attribute`

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20924#discussion_r1753097914