RFR [8020669] java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes() does not read any data when Files.size() is 0

[David M. Lloyd]

On 07/22/2013 11:19 AM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:03 AM, roger riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ivan,
>>
>> I'm concerned about the change in behavior for the existing working cases.
>>
>> How many times are the bytes copied in your proposed implementation?
>> How many arrays are allocated and discarded?
>> Files.copy()  uses an extra array for the copies.
>>
>> BAOS should only be used for size == 0; that would address the issue
>> without changing the current behavior or allocations.
>
>
> I also think we can do better, but we have to write the low-level code
> ourselves.
> copy creates an 8k buffer, which should be unnecessary.
> I think we can write correct code that treats the file size as purely a
> hint (or the file size may be changing concurrently), but does no extra
> allocation in the case where the hint is correct.
> You can detect end of file using InputStream.read(), but be prepared to
> handle the returned byte if there's unexpectedly more data.
> You probably have to special-case size 0, else the return from buffer read
> will be ambiguous 0.

It should be very simple; frankly I'm surprised that there has been this 
much discussion around it. :)
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