Bug or not bug? Files.newInputStream() on a Path which is a directory does not fail until you read from it

[Francis Galiegue]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue at gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>
> From a cursory analysis of the stack trace, it seems to me as the
> implementation is common to both of them, and that the stream is not
> actually opened until the first time it is read, and that open(2)
> returns -EISDIR; hence the error message...
>

Correction: read(2) can also return that. So it seems that either a
stat(2) or an lstat(2) is missing before returning the input stream...

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