RFR: 4619075: (ch) newChannel() should return Gathering/ScatteringByteChannel

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 16:26:38 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Unfortunately you are correct; I thought I had tested that. In any case, this PR can either be withdrawn, or the proposal changed to add to `Channels` the methods `newGatheringByteChannel` and `newScatteringByteChannel`.

Okay, we need to think through whether how useful they might be. There are several other API options here.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5922