RFR: 8297632: InputStream.transferTo() method should specify what the return value should be when the number of bytes transfered is larger than Long.MAX_VALUE [v3]

[Alan Bateman]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 19:36:40 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> `java.io.InputStream::transferTo` could conceivably return a negative value if the count of bytes transferred overflows a `long`. Modify the method to limit the number of bytes transferred to `Long.MAX_VALUE` per invocation.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8297632: Add Reader::transferTo and select InputStream::transferTo overrides

Can you check ZipInputStream.transferTo? It has a partial copy of a lot of the InputStream javadoc because it has to insert "current ZIP entry" into the text. It's not possible to have a ZIP file larger than Long.MAX_VALUE so there may be nothing to do there but we should check the javadoc.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/11403