Patch to fix BufferedInputStream.skip and bug 4254082

[Pascal S. de Kloe]

Hello Bill,

This may cause dead-locks. Do you really want such a bug because some 
people may not have gotten the API right?


On Wednesday 11 July 2007 00:50:22 you wrote:
> The proposed change is that BufferedInputStream skip should not skip
> less bytes than requested unless there are no buffered bytes and a
> call to skip on the wrapped input stream returns 0.
>
> Since the return value of skip is rarely checked, a short skip will
> almost certainly result in program failure.
>
> As a consequence of this change, skip may block in situations where
> it could avoid blocking by performing a short skip. Since I believe
> that a short skip is likely to result in program failure, and
> blocking is better than failure, I believe this is an acceptable
> change.
>
> 	Bill
>
>
> On Jul 10, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Christopher Hegarty - Sun Microsystems
>
> wrote:
> > Hi Pascal, Bill, et al,
> >
> > I was responsible for integrating the contributed fix for 6192696.
> > The problem with it was that it relied on a 'good' implementation
> > of the available method. By 'good' I mean that it actually returns
> > the amount of data that can be read without blocking, and not
> > simply 1. ZipInputStream.available simply returns 1 (if there is
> > any data available) as it is difficult to determine the amount of
> > available data when dynamically uncompressing a data stream.
> >
> > Now, using available to try and fill as much of
> > BufferedInputStream's internal buffer without blocking may result
> > in reading only 1 byte at a time from the underlying stream,
> > creating a performance degradation. See
> > 6409506 and 6411870.
> >
> > I'm not sure what exactly is being proposed here, but if available
> > is going to be used to optimize the amount of data actually
> > skipped, be aware of the limitation of ZipInputStream.available and
> > other 'bad' available implementations.
> >
> > -Chris.
> >
> > Pascal S. de Kloe wrote:
> >> Hello Martin,
> >>
> >>> 6192696: BufferedInputStream.read(byte[], int, int) can block if
> >>> the entire buffer can't be filled
> >>> http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6192696
> >>
> >> The problem is fill(). It doesn't check available(). The patch on
> >> this mailing list is supposed to fix that too.


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