* cancellation of the operation so far. The only way to extract the value or exception from a step
 * is by declaring that step to be the last step of the pipeline. Nevertheless, we refer to the
 * "value" of a successful step or the "result" (value or exception) of any step.
 *
 * <ol>
 *   <li>A pipeline starts at its leaf step (or steps), which is created from either a callable

import jcifs.smb1.util.LogStream;
import jcifs.util.Strings;

/**
 * This class represents a resource on an SMB network. Mainly these
 * resources are files and directories however an <code>SmbFile</code>
 * may also refer to servers and workgroups. If the resource is a file or
 * directory the methods of <code>SmbFile</code> follow the behavior of
 * the well known {@link java.io.File} class. One fundamental difference