boolean isOther()

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Thu Jul 2 00:35:45 PDT 2009


Martin Buchholz wrote:
> A suggestion.
>
>     /**
>      * Tells whether the file is something other than a regular file, directory,
>      * or link.
>      */
>     boolean isOther();
>
> Since (at least in Unix) there are two kinds of links,
> this would be a little clearer if we changed
>
> link => symbolic-link
>
> and perhaps elsewhere in nio2 docs.
>
> Martin
>   
Yes, this should say "symbolic-link". I fixed a number of these a while 
ago but this one obvious slipped through. Do you want to fix this 
yourself? If so, you are welcome to push it to nio/nio/jdk and I'll get 
it into jdk7/tl with the next batch of updates.

-Alan.



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