On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 02:44:42 GMT, David Holmes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So, this dot logic should be lifted to JVM_LoadLibrary? > > Possibly, but I still want to understand this change as it is now proposed. > The whole thing has been about symlinks till now, so now what exactly is the > problem and solution? It's been a windy path. As the PR description says, the problem appeared after JDK-8003887, which was a symlink-related change. JDK-8003887 looks be correct, though, and the regression was due to it exposing underlying problems in the native library loading code. Specifically, `JVM_LoadLibrary` on Windows does not work as expected when given a file without a `.dll` extension. We can make `JVM_LoadLibrary` work with the dot appending trick (current version of the PR), or apply the dot-appending trick in `NativeLibraries` (previous version of the PR). > You just want a way to load an arbitrarily-named file as if it were a dll? That sounds generally desirable. My use case is narrower. The file presented to `System.loadLibrary` does end with `.dll`. But after the path canonicalization done by `NativeLibraries`, the final path does not end with `.dll`. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24694#issuecomment-3379394592
