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

[Christos Zoulas]

On Jul 22, 11:58am, martinrb at google.com (Martin Buchholz) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: RFR [8020669] java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes() does not rea

| It's the OS/filesystem implementer deciding to return a bogus number.
| 
| More accurate would be to count by reading all the bytes, but that is
| impractical and/or impossible (e.g. don't try reading "all the bytes" from
| /dev/null)
|
| A middle ground would be to mistrust specifically file sizes of zero,
| testing via
| int c = read()
| but then what?  Check for /proc bug on Linux?

The only sure way to read all the data from a file in Unix is to attempt
to read(2) until it returns 0 (or -1 on error). If you think you can trust
the size stat(2) returns what does it return for /dev/zero? :-)

christos