Question about FileSystem's .supportedFileAttributeViews()

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/12/2014 15:08, Francis Galiegue wrote:
> The documentation is not very clear about this, but let's say, for
> instance, that an implementation supports the "acl" view; is it
> required that this method report also "owner", since acl "inherits"
> owner, so to speak? Similarly, if it supports "posix", will it have to
> also report "basic" and "owner"?
>
All implementations are required to support basic.

There isn't any requirement to support other views beyond that. Also no 
requirement to support "owner" if you support posix or acl. Clearly if 
you support either of those then it should be trivial to support owner too.

-Alan