access error with FileChannel.open(dir) on windows

[Alan Bateman]

On 22/02/2013 19:07, Akhil Arora wrote:
> The following simple program throws access denied on windows7 for any 
> directory path passed as the first arg. Works fine on linux, and works 
> fine for args that are file. Verified that the exception occurs on a 
> coworker's windows7 as well. Is this a bug or am I doing something 
> wrong? Thanks
Whether you can open a directory as a regular file is highly platform 
specific. In this case it's just the error coming from Windows.

BTW: If you are just opening a FileChannel for reading then 
FileChannel.open(path) should do it.

-Alan.