RFR: 8338851: Hoist os::Posix::realpath() to os::realpath() and implement on Windows [v2]

[Julian Waters]

On Wed, 4 Sep 2024 20:10:54 GMT, Simon Tooke <stooke at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This PR changes the status of realpath() from a Posix-specific API to a globally available API, i.e. adding it to the "Hotspot Porting API".  Code would refer to os::realpath() instead of os::Posix::realpath().
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>> This requires the addition of a stub routine in os_posix.cpp and a Windows implementation of realpath(), using Windows _fullpath().
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>> This PR depends on #20597 in that it removes the need for one #ifdef in that PR.  Because of that, this PR will be modified when and if #20597 is integrated.
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>> Please note that guidelines for doing this appear in src/hotspot/share/runtime/os.hpp
>
> Simon Tooke has updated the pull request incrementally with two additional commits since the last revision:
> 
>  - simplify windwos realpath() implementation
>  - get rid of os::posix::realpath() and os::win32::realpath()

Looks good, just 1 comment

src/hotspot/os/posix/os_posix.cpp line 1027:

> 1025: }
> 1026: 
> 1027: char* os::Posix::realpath(const char* filename, char* outbuf, size_t outbuflen) {

I'm looking at this from the GitHub UI so I might be missing something, but why was this moved up?

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Marked as reviewed by jwaters (Committer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20683#pullrequestreview-2282462140
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20683#discussion_r1745181260