RFR: 8048020 - Regression on java.util.logging.FileHandler

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/07/2014 18:25, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
>
> Given that nothing is going to be written to the file then maybe I 
> don't need APPEND.
> I just don't want the call to FileChannel.open() to truncate the file.
APPEND should be harmless here, just not needed.

>
>> Also you catch FileNotFoundException (which is not thrown by 
>> FileChannel.open) 
> oh? What will FileChannel.open throw if the file does not exist then? 
> Is there another
> exception? Or do you mean it's not possible to know why 
> FileChannel.open fails?
> That would be bad...
All the specific file system exceptions are defined in java.nio.file but 
it's not clear to me that you only want to handle NoSuchFileException. 
Don't you want to handle cases where the zombie file can't be opened for 
other reasons (file permission issues for example that would manifest as 
an AccessDeniedException)?

-Alan.