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

[Alan Bateman]

On 12/11/2012 23:22, Jim Gish wrote:
> 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();
CREATE rather than CREATE_NEW so that it doesn't fail if the lock file 
already exists. Although it's just a lock file then I think it would be 
impolite to truncate it.

You could use Paths.get(lockFileName)rather than new 
File(lockFileName).toPath() here but either is fine.

-Alan.