RFR: 8348828: Windows dll loading now resolves symlinks [v8]

[David Holmes]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 02:40:58 GMT, Benjamin Peterson <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> So, this dot logic should be lifted to JVM_LoadLibrary?

Possibly, but I still want to understand this change as it is now proposed. The whole thing has been about symlinks till now, so now what exactly is the problem and solution? You just want a way to load an arbitrarily-named file as if it were a dll?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24694#issuecomment-3379366811