Le 4 janv. 2014 à 16:23, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> a écrit :

> Hi all,
> 
> in ResourceUtils#copy we'll use FileChannel#transferFrom if source and
> target are Files and we don't need to modify the contents.  It looks as
> if transferFrom uses mmap under the covers and sometimes fails to do so
> - for example when one file is on a network file system[1] but it looks
> as if this was not the only issue[2].
> 
> From the stacktraces in [1] it looks as if all Ant sees is a plain
> IOException so we cannot handle the case by falling back to stream based
> copying.
> 
> One option could be yet another flag to the copy methods together with
> an attribute on all tasks that happen to use it - this would give user
> maximal control.  Another option may be a system property that users
> could set to disable transferFrom in the rare cases where it is causing
> problems - which would increase the documentation burden and isn't too
> IDE friendly.  Other choices?

Option 1 seems the best but a lot of work. If I would do it myself, I would go 
with option 2, together with an new Ant task which allow to set a system 
property from a build file, to be more IDE friendly.

Nicolas


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