6516099: InputStream.skipFully(int k) to skip exactly k bytes
Brian Burkhalter
brian.burkhalter at oracle.com
Tue Oct 23 18:29:19 UTC 2018
Hi Brent,
That is exactly why version .00 of the patch implemented skipNBytes() in a fixed way in terms of read(). I think that there is a good compromise however and I shall update the patch accordingly.
Thanks,
Brian
> On Oct 22, 2018, at 12:55 PM, Brent Christian <brent.christian at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> 562 public void skipNBytes(long n) throws IOException {
> 563 if (n > 0 && skip(n) != n) {
> 564 throw new EOFException("End of stream before enough bytes skipped");
> 565 }
> 566 }
>
> If an overrided skip() method were to skip < n bytes but not yet be at EOF, which I think the skip() spec allows, then wouldn't skipNBytes() throw an EOFException ?
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