Bug#849191: ITP: jimfs -- in-memory file system implementing the java.nio.file APIs

[Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans@eds.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: "Hans-Christoph Steiner" <hans@eds.org>

* Package name    : jimfs
  Version         : 1.1
  Upstream Author : Google Inc.
* URL             : https://github.com/google/jimfs
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: Java
  Package source  : https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-java/jimfs.git
  Description: in-memory file system implementing the java.nio.file APIs


Jimfs is an in-memory file system for Java 7 and above, implementing the
java.nio.file abstract file system APIs. Jimfs supports almost all the
APIs under java.nio.file. It supports:

    Creating, deleting, moving and copying files and directories.
    Reading and writing files with FileChannel or SeekableByteChannel,
InputStream, OutputStream, etc.
    Symbolic links.
    Hard links to regular files.
    SecureDirectoryStream, for operations relative to an open directory.
    Glob and regex path filtering with PathMatcher.
    Watching for changes to a directory with a WatchService.
    File attributes. Built-in attribute views that can be supported
include "basic", "owner", "posix", "unix", "dos", "acl" and "user". Do
note, however, that not all attribute views provide useful attributes.
For example, while setting and reading POSIX file permissions is
possible with the "posix" view, those permissions will not actually
affect the behavior of the file system.

Jimfs also supports creating file systems that, for example, use
Windows-style paths and (to an extent) behavior. In general, however,
file system behavior is modeled after UNIX and may not exactly match any
particular real file system or platform.