RFR(JDK 12/NIO) 8202285: (fs) Add a method to Files for comparing file contents

[Joe Wang]

On 10/14/18, 11:08 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 12/10/2018 20:16, Joe Wang wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Here's an update based on all of the great reviews and comments 
>> (thanks all!):
>>
>> JBS: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202285
>> CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202302
>>
>> Current version:
>> specdiff: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~joehw/jdk12/8202285/specdiff_02/java/nio/file/Files.html
>> webrevs: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~joehw/jdk12/8202285/webrev_v02/
> I think the javadoc looks good now.
>
> I agree that starting with a simple implementation is okay, it can be 
> improved in time. One thing to fix is totalRead that needs to be a 
> long to give the correct result on large files that mismatch at 
> position > 2GB.

Fixed.

-Joe
>
> -Alan