RFR: 8264400: (fs) WindowsFileStore equality depends on how the FileStore was constructed

Wed Apr 7 21:54:24 UTC 2021

On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 21:50:30 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> If we want to constrain the case insensitive comparison to fixed drives, then this might work:
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>> Yes, although it would be good to extend this to the DRIVE_REMOTE and other cases too, but that requires being confident that it is correct (and I'm not sure we have enough information to say this yet).
>> 
>> An initial change for the DRIVE_FIXED case is okay. It will mean using Locale.ROOT or Locale.US. Also the hash code will need to be cached.
>
> (Commit message for 9260dfd intended `DRIVE_FIXED`, not `DRIVE_LOCAL`: inadvertently conflated with `MNT_LOCAL` on `macOS`.)

(Commit message for 9260dfd intended `DRIVE_FIXED`, not `DRIVE_LOCAL`: inadvertently conflated with `MNT_LOCAL` on `macOS`.)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3279