RFR: 8264744: (fs) Use file cloning in Linux and macOS versions of FileChannel transfer and Files copy methods [v7]

Fri Aug 12 15:05:23 UTC 2022

On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 14:56:26 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> On macOS it's not possible to clone using file descriptors; paths are required.
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>> On macOS it's not possible to clone using file descriptors; paths are required.
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> I understand that but what isn't clear is if the attributes are cloned too.  It might be that we only use it when not copying attributes.

Right, I have some more investigation to perform here.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/9486