On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 02:08:45 GMT, Wu Yan <wu...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Please help me review the change to enhance getting time zone ID from
>> /etc/localtime on linux.
>>
>> We use `realpath` instead of `readlink` to obtain the link name of
>> /etc/localtime, because `readlink` can only read the value of a symbolic of
>> link, not the canonicalized absolute pathname.
>>
>> For example, the value of /etc/localtime is
>> "../usr/share/zoneinfo//Asia/Shanghai", then the linkbuf obtained by
>> `readlink` is "../usr/share/zoneinfo//Asia/Shanghai", and then the call of
>> `getZoneName(linkbuf)` will get "/Asia/Shanghai", not "Asia/Shanghai", which
>> consider as invalid in `ZoneInfoFile.getZoneInfo()`. Using `realpath`, you
>> can get “/usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Shanghai“ directly from “/etc/localtime“.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> wuyan
>
> Wu Yan has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or
> a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by
> the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the
> last revision:
>
> - Merge branch 'master' into timezone
> - change functions to be static
> - replace realpath
> - 8273111: Default timezone should return zone ID if /etc/localtime is valid
> but not canonicalization on linux
src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/TimeZone_md.c line 82:
> 80:
> 81: /*
> 82: * remove repeated path separators ('/') in the giving 'path'.
given?
src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/TimeZone_md.c line 89:
> 87: char *left = path;
> 88: char *right = path;
> 89: char *end = path + strlen(path);
"char* end"? better to align with existing code style
src/java.base/unix/native/libjava/TimeZone_md.c line 95:
> 93: for (; right < end; right++) {
> 94: if (*right == '/' && *(right + 1) == '/') break;
> 95: }
Is this for loop necessary? Seems it's ok to merge with the nested loop below.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5327
