[9] RFR of 8080629: (fs) Re-enable ability to fsync() on directories even though read()s on those directories may fail.

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/05/2015 22:11, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
> Please review at your convenience.
>
> Issue:	https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8080629
> Patch:	http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpb/8080629/webrev.00/
> Context:	http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2015-May/003157.html
>
> This is complete reversion of the patch applied to resolve https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8066915.
>
> It is possible that only lines 284-286 in test/java/nio/Files/SBC.java could have been removed, but the entirety of the test file was reverted to its prior state. The tests in directoryOpenTests() may be reinstated at a later time.
>
> The reverted code passes on Mac OS X and for form’s sake a complete JPRT run is in progress.
>
This looks okay.

-Alan