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

[Alan Bateman]

On 05/12/2014 23:45, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>
> Well, I don’t have the background in this area to know the history or 
> design intent, but to me it seems preferable to have fail fast 
> behavior such as that apparently implemented by newOutputStream.
>
newOutputStream doesn't actually do anything special here, it's just 
that the underlying open will fail on Linux and other platforms when you 
attempt to open a directory for write access.

-Alan.
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