RFR: 8154364: Files.isSameFile() throws NoSuchFileException with broken symbolic links [v3]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:15:00 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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>>   8154364: Propagate change of previous commit to Windows
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> src/java.base/windows/classes/sun/nio/fs/WindowsFileSystemProvider.java line 435:
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>> 433:         // check existence
>> 434:         boolean exists1 = exists(obj1);
>> 435:         boolean exists2 = exists(obj2);
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> exists does the openForReadAttributeAccess+readAttributes+CloseHandle so it looks like the change means it will do it twice for each file.

Right, the Windows implementation is not good and needs to be rethought.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26736#discussion_r2277483808