RFR : 8038491: Improve synchronization in ZipFile.read()

[Alan Bateman]

On 09/04/2014 20:10, Seán Coffey wrote:
>
> I played around with adding some skip testing Alan but didn't see it 
> increase the rate of failure on an unpatched binary. Since 
> ZipFileInputStream.read(..) is the trouble method and now has better 
> synchronized access to reading and updating rem, I believe we're good. 
> skip(long) can trigger a close() but close() can't free up the 
> resources without the ZipFile.this lock. As mentioned, having 
> multiples threads reading from the one zip stream would make no sense 
> anyhow.
>
> Let me know if I need to make changes. I don't think we want to add 
> extra sync costs to the class.
If you are only going to synchronize read then you will need to take a 
copy of rem and pos, otherwise you have to assume that the check and 
limiting of len isn't reliable, same thing for pos which could be way 
out of range due to concurrent usages of skip.

-Alan.