RFR: 8352728: InternalError loading java.security due to Windows parent folder permissions

[Andrew Leonard]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:36:52 GMT, Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet <fferrari at openjdk.org> wrote:

>>> File::getCanonicalPath seems to take the best-effort approach (both in Linux and Windows), whereas Path::toRealPath is stricter.
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>> Path::toRealPath is doing the right thing, and consistent with realpath(2). The issue with File::getCanonicalXXX is that it is specified to return a canonical file even if it doesn't exist, so this is why you see a lot more code to compute a result.
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>> Maybe the recursive include check them maybe it should use the file key instead.
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> @AlanBateman are you ok with letting the original c6f1d5f374bfa9bde75765391d5dae0e8e28b4ab reviewers know of this fix and take a look? Or do you think further discussion is needed somewhere else?

@franferrax Is there any progress on this fix please?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24465#issuecomment-2969670841