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* Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara, |
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* CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or |
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package java.nio.file.attribute; |
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* Basic attributes associated with a file in a file system. |
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* <p> Basic file attributes are attributes that are common to many file systems |
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* and consist of mandatory and optional file attributes as defined by this |
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* interface. |
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* <p> <b>Usage Example:</b> |
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* <pre> |
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* FileRef file = ... |
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* BasicFileAttributes attrs = Attributes.readBasicFileAttributes(file); |
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* </pre> |
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* Returns the number of <em>links</em> to this file. |
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* <p> On file systems where the same file may be in several directories then |
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* value is {@code 1} on file systems that only allow a file to have a |
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