RFR: 8298658: Platform-specific type leaks to platform independent code.

[Alan Bateman]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2023 13:24:13 GMT, Alfonso² Peterssen <duke at openjdk.org> wrote:

> NIO has a very clean separation between platform-dependent FS implementations and user-facing APIs, this is the only pain point we found.
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> Our goal (in Espresso) is to override the platform-dependent FS, not just the apllication FS.

BTW: Have you looked at the system property "java.nio.file.spi.DefaultFileSystemProvider" as that can be used to specify an alternative implementation of the default provider.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11674