RFR: 6244047: impossible to specify directories to logging FileHandler unless they exist

[Jim Gish]

Which file(s) are you concerned about truncating/damaging?  The code I'm 
impacting is for creating a new lock file.  Where is the potential for 
truncating/damaging that you both are referring to?

Is this sufficient (plus the proper exception handling of course) ?

                     //lockStream = new FileOutputStream(lockFileName);
                     fc = FileChannel.open(new 
File(lockFileName).toPath(), CREATE_NEW, WRITE);
                     //fc = lockStream.getChannel();

Thanks,
    Jim

On 11/10/2012 05:54 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 09/11/2012 22:41, Jason Mehrens wrote:
>> Jim,
>>
>> You might just want to change the code to create and close a 
>> FileOutputStream in a way that doesn't truncate or damage the target 
>> file.  Or maybe use the NIO file code if that is possible.  See BUG 
>> ID 4420020.
>>
>> Jason
> I think so too. As it needs a FileChannel anyway, then it may be 
> simpler to just use FileChannel.open(lf, WRITE), that won't truncate 
> the file and will also throw a useful IOException in the event that it 
> fails. As there are specific IOException thrown for specific cases 
> then it may be possible to eliminate the loop completely for I/O error 
> cases.
>
> -Alan

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