On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:13:06 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> FileChannel implements SeekableByteChannel. You'll see exactly the same thing > if you use FileChannel.open to open a special file. Ah... thanks. Also (for example) `FileInputStream.getChannel()` returns a `FileChannel`, so we're stuck with it. OK so this is an "original sin" situation which we can't fix here. Thanks for the clarification. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21508#issuecomment-2414264717