RFR: 8343823: (fs) Files.createLink: inconsistent behavior when creating link to symbolic link [v2]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:34:26 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   8343823: Move API note verbiage into the method description
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/nio/file/Files.java line 987:
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>> 985:      * known as creating a "hard link". Whether the file attributes are
>> 986:      * maintained for the file or for each directory entry is file system
>> 987:      * specific and therefore not specified. If the {@code existing} parameter
> 
> Thanks for moving the method description. Can you try putting the new sentence before the "Whether the file attributes ..." sentence as I think will flow a bit better.

Moved in commit 3db1cfb.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/22257#discussion_r1850767439