return defaultValue
  }
}

/** Closes this, ignoring any checked exceptions. */
fun Closeable.closeQuietly() {
  try {
    close()
  } catch (rethrown: RuntimeException) {
    throw rethrown
  } catch (_: Exception) {
  }
}

/**
 * Returns true if file streams can be manipulated independently of their paths. This is typically

                .setLoggerName("org.codelibs.fess.test") //
                .setLevel(Level.ERROR) //
                .setMessage(new SimpleMessage("test error")) //
                .setThrown(new RuntimeException("test exception")) //
                .setTimeMillis(System.currentTimeMillis()) //
                .build();
        appender.append(event);

       *   deleteDirectoryContents is when an exception is thrown during the recursive steps. Any
       *   failure during the initial lookup of the path argument itself is rethrown directly. So
       *   any exception that we're seeing here is from a descendant, which naturally has a parent.
       *   I think.
       *