On Jul 22, 11:58am, marti...@google.com (Martin Buchholz) wrote: -- Subject: Re: RFR [8020669] java.nio.file.Files.readAllBytes() does not rea
| It's the OS/filesystem implementer deciding to return a bogus number. | | More accurate would be to count by reading all the bytes, but that is | impractical and/or impossible (e.g. don't try reading "all the bytes" from | /dev/null) | | A middle ground would be to mistrust specifically file sizes of zero, | testing via | int c = read() | but then what? Check for /proc bug on Linux? The only sure way to read all the data from a file in Unix is to attempt to read(2) until it returns 0 (or -1 on error). If you think you can trust the size stat(2) returns what does it return for /dev/zero? :-) christos
