On Fri, 15 Sep 2023 14:35:43 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> If this code does not interact with ACL-based security, then it's not clear >> to me that there's anything to be done here. > >> If this code does not interact with ACL-based security, then it's not clear >> to me that there's anything to be done here. > > Right, these methods were created with POSIX file permissions in mind. On the > surface, the only result it can return is false (to mean fail) but the > concern is that it would be an incompatible change so we need to think a bit > more about it. Commit 08c5fd936e79fe1d08ca5c7fc9cc59a8c71ff555 reverts the impl changes in favor of adjusting the spec to match behavior. This PR will be tagged and a CSR created once there is consensus on the spec update. Note that the spec of `File.setWritable` is _not_ changed. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15673#discussion_r1330754200
