A DESCRIPTION OF THE REQUEST :
BasicFileAttributes support creation, modified, and accessed time stamps but POSIX has changed but this is not available and creation is in the interface but is not available on this platform . Also there are a lot of other attributes in system/stat.h that are not available. I assume other platforms are not fully supported regarding all file meta-data. I was hopeing Java would provide better access to platform specific information in a more platform neutral way. Can attribute support be more fully implemented?

JUSTIFICATION :
To provide a fully realised API instead of a solution that is complete.

EXPECTED VERSUS ACTUAL BEHAVIOR :
EXPECTED -
Support fully all platform / file-systems meta-data.
ACTUAL -
Unable to access all file meta data eg inside, change time, device ID major and minor etc.

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Here are the potential attributes as found in the header
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.h.html
Assume Mac / windows is not fully complete but I have not checked their APIs.
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CUSTOMER SUBMITTED WORKAROUND :
I am either going to modify the JDK or code my own JNI solution for an OSGi platform.