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 1:07 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
[...]
> It's not prohibited by the spec because directories can be opened as regular
> files on some platforms. So what you are seeing it just platform specific
> behavio[r].
>

OK... By the way, on Windows system the code I posted (with a correct
path, of course) throws AccessDeniedException when attempting to open!

I do believe that a IsDirectoryException should be created for such
cases (as an "optional specific exception" as the documentation says).

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