RFR [7011804] SequenceInputStream with lots of empty substreams can cause StackOverflowError

[Alan Bateman]

On 02/03/2014 07:58, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
> Hello!
>
> SequenceInputStream#read functions are implemented recursively.
> This may cause stack overflow in some extreme cases with lots of empty 
> substreams.
>
> Would you please help review the fix?
>
> BUGURL: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/7011804
> WEBREV: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/7011804/0/webrev/
Thanks for taking one. I don't think this code has changed much since 
JDK 1.0 where it seems to have been originally implemented to use 
recursion. I'm dubious about the bug report and whether the usage is 
real or made-up to demonstrate the issue.

In any case, the changes good to me. One comment in passing is that 
normally an InputStream read throws IOException when the stream is 
closed where as SIS returns EOF. There may be an opportunity to clarify 
the javadoc in a few places (not for this bug of course).

The test looks okay. I agree with Chris that there shouldn't be a need 
to run it in its own VM.

-Alan.