On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 16:21:31 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> A large section of error reporting code in the JDK does not properly handle 
> WIN32 API errors and instead mixes them with errors originating from C. Since 
> they can be rather easily replaced and coming up with an elegant solution 
> proved to be too much of a hassle to be worth it, and some of the concerns 
> they address no longer are an issue with current versions of the platforms 
> supported by the JDK, they can be easily removed without much effect. The 
> remaining utilities that are still needed now instead report directly from 
> strerror, with a new subsystem for WIN32 errors put in place wherever 
> required, to minimize confusion when they are used, which was a problem with 
> earlier solutions to this issue.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9870

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