RFR: 8294193: Files.createDirectories throws FileAlreadyExistsException for a symbolic link whose target is an existing directory [v2]

[Jaikiran Pai]

On Thu, 22 Sep 2022 09:20:26 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to fix the issue noted in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8294193?
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>> As discussed in a related PR https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/10266#issuecomment-1246800456, this is a genuine bug in the `java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories` implementation. The commit in this PR fixes that by making sure that links are followed when checking if a `Path` is a directory during the creation of directories in the `createDirectories` implementation. The `private` method which is changed in this PR is only used in the `Files.createDirectories` and no other place, so this change should not impact any other code. Additionally a new test has been added to reproduce the issue and verify the fix.
>> tier1, tier2 and tier3 tests passed with this change.
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> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   move Files.createDirectories testing from Misc.java to CreateDirectories.java

Hello Alan, I've updated the PR to implement your suggestions in the test. The test continues to pass.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10383