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File.canWrite and Files.isWritable do not give the correct value for Linux

I have this test java program

import java.io.File;
import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
import java.nio.file.Files;

public class TestFileReadOnly
{    
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String filePath = args[0];
        File f = new File(filePath);

        System.out.println("File.canWrite() for file: " + filePath + ", is: " + f.canWrite());
        System.out.println("Files.isWritable() for file: " + filePath + ", is: " + Files.isWritable(FileSystems.getDefault().getPath(f.getParent(), f.getName())));
    }
}

I connect to Linux using root and create two files.

echo "test file" > /root/ro.txt
echo "test file" > /root/rw.txt
chmod 444 /root/ro.txt
chmod 777 /root/rw.txt

When I run the test program this way, the output is always incorrect

[root@xxx ~]# /jdk1.8.0_31/bin/java TestFileReadOnly /root/ro.txt
File.canWrite() for file: /root/ro.txt, is: true
Files.isWritable() for file: /root/ro.txt, is: true
[root@xxx ~]# /jdk1.8.0_31/bin/java TestFileReadOnly /root/rw.txt
File.canWrite() for file: /root/rw.txt, is: true
Files.isWritable() for file: /root/rw.txt, is: true

I'm basically looking for Java code to check if a file is read-only, but I can't use it using the above. However, this works well on Windows. I tried to compile and execute using jdk1.7.0_07, jdk1.7.0_75 and jdk1.8.0_31, but the result will be the same. Any help to solve this problem is much appreciated.

Solution: Used @Matteo's suggestion for using PosixFileAttributes for UNIX-like platforms. The working code is given below:

private boolean isFileReadOnly(File file)
{
    boolean isReadOnly = false;
    if (System.getProperty("os.name").startsWith("Windows"))
    {
        // All Windows versions
        isReadOnly = !file.canWrite();
    }
    else
    {
        // All Unix-like OSes.
        Path path = Paths.get(file.getParent(), file.getName());
        PosixFileAttributes attributes = null;
        try
        {
            attributes = Files.getFileAttributeView(path, PosixFileAttributeView.class).readAttributes();
        }
        catch (java.io.IOException e)
        {
            // File presence is guaranteed. Ignore
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        if (attributes != null)
        {
            // A file is read-only in Linux only when it has 0444 permissions.
            Set<PosixFilePermission> permissions = attributes.permissions();

            if (!permissions.contains(PosixFilePermission.OWNER_WRITE)
                && !permissions.contains(PosixFilePermission.OWNER_EXECUTE)
                && !permissions.contains(PosixFilePermission.GROUP_WRITE)
                && !permissions.contains(PosixFilePermission.GROUP_EXECUTE)
                && !permissions.contains(PosixFilePermission.OTHERS_WRITE)
                && !permissions.contains(PosixFilePermission.OTHERS_EXECUTE))
            {
                isReadOnly = true;
            }
        }
    }
    return isReadOnly;
}
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1

, false , /root.

root, true , root :

$ echo uuu > ro.txt 
$ echo > ro.txt 
$ ls -l ro.txt 
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1 Feb  6 15:03 ro.txt
$ cat ro.txt 

$ echo Test > ro.txt 
$ cat ro.txt 
Test
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