* Alan Bateman:
A few months back I extended it to work with file channels but didn't get around to integrating the changes (mostly because Windows lacks the APIs in this area and the solution for that platform needed more testing).
Ah, good to know.
Are you running into this problem?
No, fortunately I'm not. I need to implement flock()-based locking for interoperability with another programming environment (which, in turn, does not support fcntl()-based locks). I wondered what I'd need to do to avoid this particular race, and looked the OpenJDK sources for enlightenment, but could not find anything relevant in the file channel area (I knew about the tricks played with sockets). This means that for the time being, I'm going to live with the race.