[PATCH] gnu.java.nio.FileChannelImpl - hack - comments appreciated

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Koch <konqueror@gmx.de> writes:

Michael> I made a little patch to make gnu.java.nio.FileChannelImpl more 
Michael> working in trunk. Unfortunately it uses an IMO ugly hack:

Michael> It uses native methods to access the package private methods from 
Michael> java.io.FileDescriptor. Is this allowed ? Should it be avoided ? What 
Michael> should be done ?

This is definitely allowed.  We already do this with FileDescriptor in
java.net; there's even a comment in FileDescriptor explaining that we
do it.  I know we do it in other cases as well.  It is a bit ugly, but
not really worse than the alternatives.

Tom