RFR: JDK-8294702 - BufferedInputStream uses undefined value range for markpos [v2]

[Markus KARG]

On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 15:53:04 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This is true, but if a broken subclass sets markpos to less than -1 then lots of code lines will work incorrectly -- including `transferTo` which was the starting point of your change proposal. So do you really only want undo the change *here*, or is it better drop this PR and even use `< 0` in `transferTo`, as I originally proposed?
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>> This is true, but if a broken subclass sets markpos to less than -1 then lots of code lines will work incorrectly -- including `transferTo` which was the starting point of your change proposal. So do you really only want undo the change _here_, or is it better drop this PR and even use `< 0` in `transferTo`, as I originally proposed?
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> This looks to be the only that would corrupt the current position (pos). 
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> @bplb plans to look at this too, another set of eyes would be good on this point.

@AlanBateman Checking `< 0` just here, as per your proposal. 👍 

@bplb Kindly requesting `/sponsor`. 😃

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10528