On Thu, 8 May 2025 13:58:54 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Would it be possible to paste in here, or in the JBS issue, some examples of >> the path provided to LoadLibrary with some commentary on the sym links >> created on the file system. > >> You might be correct. We'll see what @AlanBateman and others have to say >> about it. > > I'm still puzzled as to why the DLLs have been moved from the JDK bin > directory to some other location, and renamed so they don't have the ".dll" > suffix. There most be some other product in the picture that we can't see. > The quoted text from the Windows LoadLibrary documentation, where it appends > the ".dll" suffix when not provided, is very useful as it helps us > understand why it fails. > > As regards dropping the canonicalization then it would require thinking about > the lock map used for mapping the library names to locks. It would need > checking if it would break concurrent loading when using different names / > file paths to the same DLL. There may be a route that involves adding a > method to ClassLoaderHelper to post-process the path and the Windows version > could add the "." when it doesn't have the ".dll" suffix. @AlanBateman any further feedback here? ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24694#issuecomment-2963394413
