RFR: 8352728: InternalError loading java.security due to Windows parent folder permissions [v9]

[Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2025 06:43:36 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Francisco Ferrari Bihurriet has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Remove path resolution from exception message
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/security/Security.java line 275:
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>> 273:             // specified to exist even for nonexistent/inaccessible files.
>> 274:             try {
>> 275:                 return path.toFile().getCanonicalFile().toPath();
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> @seanjmullan If this change is integrated, can we create a follow-up on issue to replace it? I strongly disagree with the changes in this PR, we should not be using File::getCanonicalFile here to work around an issue with an inaccessible parent directory.

Just wanted to note that I also dislike this change, but is the only way I found to support relative includes in Windows UWP Java applications.

I'm open to other suggestions, including going back to `Path::toRealPath` and dropping that use-case (while still fixing the original [JDK-8352728](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8352728 "InternalError loading java.security due to Windows parent folder permissions") issue), even though that isn't my preference.

@AlanBateman: do you disagree with other changes in this PR? I'm not comfortable integrating something that we haven't agreed upon.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24465#discussion_r2523745568