[jdk17u-dev] RFR: 8290499: new File(parent, "/") breaks normalization – creates File with slash at the end

[Goetz Lindenmaier]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:49:35 GMT, Roland Mesde <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Backporting JDK-8290499: New File(parent, "/") breaks normalization – creates File with slash at the end. Fixes the file separator logic and updates a test. Ran GHA Sanity Checks (passed), and related file tests (passed). Patch is clean.

Hi @rm-gh-8
please give a risk assessment for this backport.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk17u-dev/pull/4175#issuecomment-3532962667