RFR JDK-8066678: java.nio.channels.Channels cleanup

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/12/2014 14:46, Pavel Rappo wrote:
> :
>
> But can we simply go a little bit further and change it to just:
>
> 	if (in instanceof FileInputStream) {
> 	    return ((FileInputStream) in).getChannel();
> 	}
> ?
>
> Does anybody recall why it was that way in the first place?
I can't see any reason why it wasn't done this way originally, I can 
only assume it was a concern at the time with classes that extend 
FileInputStream.

-Alan.