I am not sure, because RandomAccessFile has a getChannel method, so I suspect that they share the descriptor. Maybe check it with lsof?
Possibly we could wait until Simon provides a testcase that fails. ----- Uwe Schindler H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen http://www.thetaphi.de eMail: [email protected] > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael McCandless [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Nasty NIO behavior makes NIOFSDirectory silently close > channel > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Uwe Schindler <[email protected]> wrote: > > But if you keep the underlying RandomAccessFile open? > > We could do that but... won't this consume 2 file descriptors? > > Mike > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
