RFR: 8365626: (fs) Improve handling of broken links in Files.isSameFile() (win) [v3]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:57:29 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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>>   8365626: Address reviewer comments since previous commit
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> src/java.base/windows/classes/sun/nio/fs/WindowsFileSystemProvider.java line 490:
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>> 488: 
>> 489:     // find the key by following links
>> 490:     private LinkAttributes fileAttrs(WindowsPath file) throws WindowsException {
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> The comment doesn't work for this method. Can we find a better name for this method and put a more complete method description?

This method in effect attempts to provide the attributes of the path which would be returned by `file.toRealPath()`, returning `null` where that method would throw `NoSuchFileException`. So maybe something like `realPathAttrs`?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/27079#discussion_r2337317059