meaning of PRUNE in FileVisitor.visitFile() ?

[Alan Bateman]

Rajendra Gutupalli wrote:
> Hi Alan,
>
> The spec for PRUNE says "Continue without visiting the entries in this 
> directory. This result is only meaningful when returned from the 
> preVisitDirectory method; otherwise this result type is the same as 
> returning CONTINUE.". Does the PRUNE work in visitFile()  method as 
> "Continue without visiting 'remaining' entries in the directory". Now 
> it treats PRUNE as CONTINUE in visitFile() method. Could you please 
> tell me how can we continue from visiting the remaining entries of the 
> directory?
Do you have any examples of where this would be used? It would be 
straight-forward (actually trivial) to add a SKIP_SIBLINGS option if 
needed.

-Alan.