8227609: (fs) Files.newInputStream(...).skip(n) should allow skipping beyond file size

[Alan Bateman]

On 26/07/2019 16:06, Florian Weimer wrote:
> :
> On ext4?  The EINVAL depends on the file system.  XFS supports arbitrary
> offsets, but ext4 does not, for example.
>
> We discussed this recently on another thread:
>
Right, the recent thread on this topic is here:

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/nio-dev/2019-June/006226.html