Bug #7063249

[Alan Bateman]

On 18/09/2013 18:17, cowwoc wrote:
> :
>
> Regarding whether timeout<= 0 returning immediately is the right thing to
> do,
All these methods return immediately (they aren't synchronous, they 
never block). The issue that that we did not come to a conclusion was 
whether there should be API support for having I/O operating that 
complete immediately when there aren't any bytes transferred.  That 
needs further consideration to see if it make sense, the API issue is 
somewhat secondary to that.


> I'd like to remind you of the following:
>
> Doug explaining why the behavior is desirable:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-discuss/2009-June/000239.html
>
> You agreeing with him and committing to making the change:
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-discuss/2009-June/000240.html
I think this was actually 6878369 which was pushed soon after discussion.

I'm sorry that we didn't get time to explore further since then. 
Unfortunately I personally do not have the cycles to think about it for 
JDK 8, there is just way too many other things going on.

-Alan.