1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Tar.java b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Tar.java
index 815477ab9..653cc5b37 100644
--- a/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Tar.java
+++ b/src/main/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/Tar.java
@@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ package org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs;
 
 import java.io.BufferedOutputStream;
 import java.io.File;
-import java.io.FileOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ public class Tar extends MatchingTask {
                 tOut = new TarOutputStream(
                     compression.compress(
                         new BufferedOutputStream(
-                            new FileOutputStream(tarFile))),
+                            Files.newOutputStream(tarFile.toPath()))),
                     encoding);
                 tOut.setDebug(true);
                 if (longFileMode.isTruncateMode()) {