RFR 9: 8155808: Process.getInputStream().skip() method is faulty

[Roger Riggs]

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On 6/13/2016 11:06 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> A latent issue with Process InputStreams support for the skip method 
> was reported[1].
>
> Though the InputStream returned is a BufferedInputStream, in some cases,
> the skip method calls FileInputStream.seek on the pipe containing output
> from the process but the pipes do not support seek.  The proposed fix 
> is to override
> the skip method to implement skip as reading the bytes instead of 
> invoking seek.
>
> Please review and comment:
>
> Webrev:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/webrev-skip-8155808/index.html
>
> Issue:
>
>   [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155808
>
> Thanks, Roger
>
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