public static void createParentDirectories(Path path, FileAttribute<?>... attrs)
      throws IOException {
    // Interestingly, unlike File.getCanonicalFile(), Path/Files provides no way of getting the
    // canonical (absolute, normalized, symlinks resolved, etc.) form of a path to a nonexistent
    // file. getCanonicalFile() can at least get the canonical form of the part of the path which

  public static void createParentDirectories(Path path, FileAttribute<?>... attrs)
      throws IOException {
    // Interestingly, unlike File.getCanonicalFile(), Path/Files provides no way of getting the
    // canonical (absolute, normalized, symlinks resolved, etc.) form of a path to a nonexistent
    // file. getCanonicalFile() can at least get the canonical form of the part of the path which