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package java.nio.file.attribute;
/**
* A {@code UserPrincipal} representing a <em>group identity</em>, used to
* determine access rights to objects in a file system. The exact definition of
* a group is implementation specific, but typically, it represents an identity
* created for administrative purposes so as to determine the access rights for
* the members of the group. Whether an entity can be a member of multiple
* groups, and whether groups can be nested, are implementation specified and
* therefore not specified.
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* @since 1.7
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* @see UserPrincipalLookupService#lookupPrincipalByGroupName
*/
public interface GroupPrincipal extends UserPrincipal { }