Bug in Files.createDirectories(Path, FileAttribute<?>...)

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/01/2014 17:57, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Files.createDirectories may be overly reliant on specific exceptions 
> bring thrown by the underlying FileSystemProvider. On OS X then it 
> seems that mkdir returns a special error for /. It also appears that 
> Windows does something special for root directories too. Linux seems 
> to be okay. In any case, I'll create a bug for this. It hasn't been 
> reported before (to my knowledge anyway).
This is now fixed in jdk9/dev (the development forest for JDK 9). It's a 
good candidate to put into jdk8u-dev too (jdk8u-dev is currently open 
for fixes for 8u20). Thanks again for the bug report, clearly a corner 
case that we missed.

-Alan
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