Name: tb29552 Date: 09/15/97


 Trying to write to a write-protected file yields
 a FileNotFound exception. Looking at the source
 code, we see that an IOException is being caught
 and re-thrown as a FileNotFoundException.

 Therefore, we are losing the actual error (file
 can't be read) and gaining a bogus error (file can't
 be found). Since the original exception is lost,
 we don't know (without further work) whether the
 file doesn't exist or is just not writable.

 excerpting out of FileOutputStream.java <colon>

    public FileInputStream(String name) throws FileNotFoundException {
        SecurityManager security = System.getSecurityManager();
        if (security != null) {
            security.checkRead(name);
        }
        try {
            fd = new FileDescriptor();
            open(name);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            throw new FileNotFoundException(name);
        }
    }

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