RFR: 8233451: (fs) Files.newInputStream() cannot be used with character special files [v6]

[Brian Burkhalter]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:09:25 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <bpb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Add `isOther` and `available` methods to `FileChannelImpl` and the interfaces to native code and use these in `ChannelInputStream` to work around cases where a wrapped `FileChannelImpl` is not really seekable.
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> Brian Burkhalter has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>   8233451: Added test of readNBytes(int)

30 repeats on all platforms succeeded also after the most recent commit, 2876d9f.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21508#issuecomment-2432715348