On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 06:27:42 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> src/java.base/windows/native/libjava/WinNTFileSystem_md.c line 479:
>>
>>> 477: if (access == java_io_FileSystem_ACCESS_READ ||
>>> 478: access == java_io_FileSystem_ACCESS_EXECUTE) {
>>> 479: return _waccess(pathbuf, 0) == 0 ? enable : JNI_FALSE;
>>
>> Here `enable` is returned for backward compatibility, but per the
>> specification it seems that `JNI_TRUE` should be returned instead.
>
> I don't think this is right, at least it doesn't work with ACLs and file
> system security so it can't test if the file is executable. Also I have a
> concern about mixing win32 and C runtime functions here. The main issue with
> these setXXX methods is that don't map to DOS file attributes or ACL based
> security so they will need to fail for some cases.
If this code does not interact with ACL-based security, then it's not clear to
me that there's anything to be done here.
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15673#discussion_r1326342392
