RFR: 8140241: (fc) Data transfer from FileChannel to itself causes hang in case of overlap [v2]

Tue Aug 10 19:02:20 UTC 2021

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:18:15 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> This request proposes to fix a failure on macOS which occurs when transferring to or from a file channel from or to the same file channel when the source and destination intervals overlap.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8140241: Fix potential overflow in interval overlap checks

The issue is specific to macOS, but the test does not constrain the target platforms. Should it?

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5061