On OSX and JVM 7, FileChannel.open seems to be broken

Question

On OSX with JVM 7, I am seeing that FileChannel.open with CREATE_NEW doesn't seem to comply with the docs. The code below, I would expect to create a new file, and only fail if it can't (permissions, disk issue) or that the file already exists.

scala> FileChannel.open(new File("/tmp/doesnotexist").toPath, StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW)
java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /tmp/doesnotexist
  at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:86)
  at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:102)
  at sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:107)
  at sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.newFileChannel(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:177)
  at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:287)
  at java.nio.channels.FileChannel.open(FileChannel.java:334)
  ... 32 elided

scala> val path = new File("/tmp/doesnotexist")
path: java.io.File = /tmp/doesnotexist

scala> path.createNewFile()
res9: Boolean = true

scala> FileChannel.open(path.toPath, StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW)
res10: java.nio.channels.FileChannel = sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl@19fed8d0

scala> FileChannel.open(path.toPath, StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW)
res11: java.nio.channels.FileChannel = sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl@5c6ff75

scala> FileChannel.open(path.toPath, StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW)
res12: java.nio.channels.FileChannel = sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl@1fa547d1

Here is the Java that I am using

$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_55"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_55-b13)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.55-b03, mixed mode)

Is this a doc (or interpretation of doc) issue, or a bug on OSX (maybe even linux? Not tested yet)?

Answer 1

You must specify WRITE along with CREATE_NEW. I just tested this on my OS X for you, and it works as expected:

FileChannel.open(Paths.get("/tmp/doesnotexist"), StandardOpenOption.CREATE_NEW, StandardOpenOption.WRITE);