RFR: JDK-8274172: Convert JavadocTester to use NIO [v2]

Pavel Rappo prappo at openjdk.java.net
Fri Sep 24 12:05:57 UTC 2021


On Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:48:41 GMT, Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Does it mean it's implementation-specific?

Yes, it does. I briefly chatted with Alan Bateman about the meaning of this sentence

    File attributes are not required to be copied to the target file.

Some filesystems cannot help copying file attributes along with the file. That's just the way they are. In such file systems, (some) attributes are copied regardless of whether you specify the COPY_ATTRIBUTES option.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5644


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