Wrong exception thrown?

[Andrew John Hughes]

2009/8/29 John Hendrikx <hjohn at xs4all.nl>:
> Exception in  thread "Thread-8": java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException:
> c:\Copy\Macros2 -> c:\Copy2\Macros2
>        at
> sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:83)
>        at
> sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:97)
>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileCopy.move(WindowsFileCopy.java:301)
>        at sun.nio.fs.WindowsPath.implMoveTo(WindowsPath.java:1004)
>        at sun.nio.fs.AbstractPath.moveTo(AbstractPath.java:201)
>        at
> hs.filemanager.transfer.RenameFileVisitor.rename(RenameFileVisitor.java:67)
>
> This occurs when moveTo() is called with the arguments indicated +
> ATOMIC_MOVE.
>
> I would expect the FileAlreadyExistsException to be thrown.  It's not a
> permission issue (and the files are not 'read only').
>
>
>

Given the stack trace, it seems like this inaccurate error comes from
Windows rather than OpenJDK (the last two methods translate Windows
error values into exceptions).
To get the appropriate FileAlreadYExistsException, implMoveTo would
need to explicitly check for existence of the destination before doing
the move at the OS level.
-- 
Andrew :-)

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