// exists and is a symlink to a directory... we'd like for this to succeed in that case.
    // (I'm kind of surprised that createDirectories would fail in that case; doesn't seem like
    // what you'd want to happen.)
    if (!Files.isDirectory(parent)) {
      Files.createDirectories(parent, attrs);
      if (!Files.isDirectory(parent)) {
        throw new IOException("Unable to create parent directories of " + path);
      }

    // exists and is a symlink to a directory... we'd like for this to succeed in that case.
    // (I'm kind of surprised that createDirectories would fail in that case; doesn't seem like
    // what you'd want to happen.)
    if (!Files.isDirectory(parent)) {
      Files.createDirectories(parent, attrs);
      if (!Files.isDirectory(parent)) {
        throw new IOException("Unable to create parent directories of " + path);
      }

/// tip

The `shutdown` would happen when you are **stopping** the application.

Maybe you need to start a new version, or you just got tired of running it. 🤷

///

### Lifespan function

   * keys and values are the result of applying the provided mapping functions to the input
   * elements.
   *
   * <p>If the mapped keys contain duplicates (according to the comparator), the values are merged
   * using the specified merging function. Entries will appear in the encounter order of the first
   * occurrence of the key.
   *
   * @since 33.2.0 (available since 21.0 in guava-jre)
   */

 *       (such as by passing an invalid argument), use the utilities of the {@link Preconditions}
 *       class instead.
 *   <li>If checking an <i>impossible</i> condition (which <i>cannot</i> happen unless your own
 *       class or its <i>trusted</i> dependencies is badly broken), this is what ordinary Java
 *       assertions are for. Note that assertions are not enabled by default; they are essentially

import java.util.NavigableMap;
import java.util.NavigableSet;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.SortedMap;
import java.util.TreeMap;
import org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.Nullable;

/**
 * A wrapper around {@code TreeMap} that aggressively checks to see if keys are mutually comparable.
 * This implementation passes the navigable map test suites.
 *
 * @author Louis Wasserman
 */
@GwtIncompatible

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          Reflection.newProxy(Map.class, new CheckSetUpInvocationHandler(map, setUpRan));
      return proxy;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Intercepts calls to a {@code Map} to check that {@code setUpRan} is true when they happen. Then
   * forwards the calls to the underlying {@code Map}.
   */
  private static class CheckSetUpInvocationHandler implements InvocationHandler, Serializable {
    private final Map<String, String> map;

   *
   * <p>Note that {@link Float#toString(float)} formats {@code float} differently in GWT. In the
   * previous example, it returns the string {@code "1-2-3"}.
   *
   * @param separator the text that should appear between consecutive values in the resulting string
   *     (but not at the start or end)
   * @param array an array of {@code float} values, possibly empty
   */

        && this.funnel.equals(that.funnel);
  }

  /**
   * Combines this Bloom filter with another Bloom filter by performing a bitwise OR of the
   * underlying data. The mutations happen to <b>this</b> instance. Callers must ensure the Bloom
   * filters are appropriately sized to avoid saturating them.
   *
   * @param that The Bloom filter to combine this Bloom filter with. It is not mutated.