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

[Francis Galiegue]

[...]>> :
>> OK... By the way, on Windows system the code I posted (with a correct
>> path, of course) throws AccessDeniedException when attempting to open!
>>
> Yes, Windows specific behavior where it fails with "Access Denied" when you
> attempt to open a directory.
>

Sorry, but I do not buy this argument at all.

The JRE is supposed to abstract the OS difference away from its user.
You know very well that on some OSes you cannot open a directory for
read, and you know how to detect that, so why don't you do the work
for the user here and throw an appropriate exception?

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