RFR: 8355475: UNCTest should use an existing UNC path [v4]

[Mikhail Yankelevich]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 06:19:30 GMT, Eirik Bjørsnøs <eirbjo at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this test-only PR which updates `UNCTest.java` to use a UNC path which is known to exist.
>> 
>> The test currently uses the file URL `file://jdk/LOCAL-JAVA/jdk1.4/win/README.txt`, but since this is unlikely to resolve to an existing UNC path on any CI server, the test doesn't really verify what it intended to.
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>> This PR changes the test to instead use the path `file://computername/C$/Windows`, which should always be available unless Administrative Shares has been disabled. We detect this case by using File::exists for the path and simply skip the test if it does not exist.
>> 
>> I forced this test to run in tier1 on GHA and verified that it ran successfully, without being skipped. Meaning Administrative Shares is enabled in the Windows GHA instance.
>> 
>> A test run in Oracle's CI verifying a successful run (without skipping) would be welcome.
>> 
>> This is a test only PR, `noreg-self` has been added in the JBS.
>
> Eirik Bjørsnøs has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - Some spell fixes and comment tweaks
>  - Use Java-style array declaration

Looks good to me now, thank you for your changes

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24842#issuecomment-2830016438