How to do File.setReadOnly(boolean) in NIO.2

[Alan Bateman]

Christian Schlichtherle wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  
>
> I can find no equivalent to File.setReadOnly(boolean) using the NIO.2 
> API. I suppose I should be calling Files.setAttribute(*), but what is 
> the attribute parameter in a cross-platform way?
>
That's right, there isn't an exact equivalent as there isn't always a 
good mapping to the notion of "read only" to all file systems. This may 
be something to look at again in the future. For the default provider 
then you can still use toFile().setReadOnly(boolean) if needed but it 
will have the same issues as before - for example it doesn't work with 
directories on Windows for example.

-Alan.
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