RFR: 4619075: (ch) newChannel() should return Gathering/ScatteringByteChannel [v3]

Wed Oct 20 17:57:06 UTC 2021

On Wed, 20 Oct 2021 16:35:18 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Read-only check is fixed. Not sure what to do about IOEs after bytes have been read.

It probably should return the bytes read and hope the I/O exception will be thrown when called again. I guess the question is whether this complexity is worth it. Maybe we need to think more about whether we really need this API.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5922