8066915: (fs) Files.newByteChannel opens directories for cases where subsequent reads may fail

[Francis Galiegue]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> As per a recent thread, it's currently possible to open a directory for read
> access but attempts to actually read will fail. As discussed we are missing
> a fstat to check the file type so that we can fail when creating the
> channel. The webrev with the changes to fix this are here:
>   http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~alanb/8066915/webrev/
>
> Thanks,
> Alan.

Can this possibly be fixed for Windows as well, instead of getting an
AccessDeniedException?

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