Setting created timestamp of files using BasicFileAttributeView

[Michael Hall]

> On Mar 6, 2016, at 7:01 AM, Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de> wrote:

> When I set creation date using a cocoa call (NSFileManager:setAttributes:ofItemAtPath:error:) mapped to java, behaviour is as expected and creation date is changed. I filed a jdk bug report (Review ID: JI-9031479).

OK, should be a long term fix unless they decide for some reason changing this should not be allowed and that is for some reason the ‘expected behavior’.
I think one of the posts I had a url on said it doesn’t work on Linux systems either.

I could add it to mine based on your code, or you could I guess, the source is on github. As I remember you would need to specify my OS X specific filesystem(provider) as a jvm launch parameter. It is the same as the usual I think (falling through to the default filesystem(provider) for about everything except adding the additional OS X file attribute views. 
Again a lot of the api’s don’t support update as I was sort of waiting for interest on the read only attributes, which hasn’t yet really been indicated, before making the code ‘more serious’. 
It does have a currently non-functioning WatchService, so if you need one of those that works it might not be for you. Although, I may of had a property switch or something that let you fallback to the default there as well. It’s been a while for most of this, I don’t remember.


Michael Hall