AbstractBasicFileAttributeView.java (version 1.5 : 49.0, super bit)

[Helmut Schwigon]

Hallo,

while testing the package java.nio.file.attribute of the snapshot-release  java7(build 98) I detected that is impossible to set any time-attribute to long-values < 0. There is a private method sun.nio.fs.AbstractBasicFileAttributeView.toTimeValue that throws an IllegalArgumentException in this case. 
The NTFS file system (f.i.) doesn't make such restriction for the sign of the time-attributes. Therefore negative long-values shouldn't be illegal arguments.

Helmut
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