[9] RFC on 8073061: Files.copy(foo, bar, REPLACE_EXISTING) deletes bar even if foo is not readable

[Francis Galiegue]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
[...]
>>
> copy & move are complicated as it requires dealing with many different file
> types, sym links, etc. For the regular file case and when overwriting an
> existing file then it needs to truncate the existing file rather than
> deleting it (that is what this bug is about).
>

Hold on. Are we talking about the same thing?

If the source file cannot be read, the destination should be left UNTOUCHED.

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