FileOutputStream.available() and pipe EOF

[Basin Ilya]

Unfortunately, read() is
1) uninterruptilbe
2) Unlike sockets, close() or even Thread.stop() won't cancel a read
pipe operation on Windows


11.02.2018 0:27, Remi Forax пишет:
> Hi Basin,
> or instead of relying on an undocumented behaviour, you can use any overloads of read(), if it returns -1, it's the ends of the stream.
> 
> cheers,
> Rémi
> 
> ----- Mail original -----
>> De: "Basin Ilya" <basinilya at gmail.com>
>> À: "core-libs-dev" <core-libs-dev at openjdk.java.net>
>> Envoyé: Samedi 10 Février 2018 22:15:18
>> Objet: FileOutputStream.available() and pipe EOF
> 
>> Hi list.
>>
>> My question relates to streams returned by
>> java.lang.Process.getInputStream()
>>
>> On Linux calling available() after the other side of the pipe was closed
>> will throw:
>>
>> 	java.io.IOException: Stream Closed
>>
>> This is very handy, because you can distinguish EOF and a pause in
>> transmission.
>>
>> On Windows same Oracle JDK version 1.8.0_161 behaves in a traditional
>> manner and available() returns 0 in both cases. Will this ever change?