RFR: 8151430: (fs) BasicFileAttributeView.setTimes should support setting file create time on OS X [v3]

[Alan Bateman]

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 16:38:20 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Use the BSD system call `setattrlist(2)` to set file modification, access, and creation time attributes on macOS.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8151430: Minor format cleanup in BsdBasicFileAttributeView; remove extraneous file

src/java.base/macosx/classes/sun/nio/fs/BsdFileSystemProvider.java line 81:

> 79:             UnixPath file = UnixPath.toUnixPath(obj);
> 80:             boolean followLinks = Util.followLinks(options);
> 81:             return new BsdBasicFileAttributeView(file, followLinks);

PosixFileAttributeView extends BasicFileAttributeView so it's possible to obtain the former and invoke setTimes too. I need to think more on how to make that work.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9762