Bug or not bug? Files.newInputStream() on a Path which is a directory does not fail until you read from it

[Francis Galiegue]

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 12:45 AM, Brian Burkhalter
<brian.burkhalter at oracle.com> wrote:
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> Well, I don’t have the background in this area to know the history or design
> intent, but to me it seems preferable to have fail fast behavior such as
> that apparently implemented by newOutputStream.
>

Agreed on that; also, it'd be really nice to have an exception such as
IsDirectoryException or the like for such cases.

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