Unix file attributes

[Salter, Thomas A]

How are users expected to take advantage of the "unix" file attributes?  They can retrieved dynamically through Files.readAttributes.    FileSystem. supportedFileAttributeViews tells you they exist.  Yet how are you supposed to know what they mean?  (The meanings are obvious from the names, but that's not the point.)  Is this something that would be documented by Oracle apart from the JDK?  Are they simply internal to the implementation and not expected to be used?


By the way, the javadocs for Files.readAttributes refers to the " ...  POSX file permissions ... ".  POSIX is misspelled.

Tom Salter
Unisys Corporation

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