RFR: 8360028: (fs) Path.relativize throws StringIndexOutOfBoundsException (win) [v2]

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 23:39:17 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Ignore empty name elements in `WindowsPath.normalize()`.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8360028: Returned normalized string from WindowsLinkSupport.readLinkImpl

src/java.base/windows/classes/sun/nio/fs/WindowsLinkSupport.java line 361:

> 359: 
> 360:             // return normalized path string
> 361:             return WindowsPathParser.parse(target).path();

This looks right, I'm just wondering if we now have cases where this will be parsed again. If then they I think this is good and we can drop the change to WindowsPath.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26080#discussion_r2182070199