On Mon, 26 Jul 2021 23:59:05 GMT, Brian Burkhalter <b...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Markus KARG has refreshed the contents of this pull request, and previous 
>> commits have been removed. The incremental views will show differences 
>> compared to the previous content of the PR.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/sun/nio/ch/ChannelInputStream.java line 179:
> 
>> 177:             for (long n = srcSize - srcPos; bytesWritten < n;)
>> 178:                 bytesWritten += src.transferTo(srcPos + bytesWritten, 
>> Long.MAX_VALUE, dest);
>> 179:             return bytesWritten;
> 
> If `src` is extended at an inconvenient point in time, for example between 
> the return from a call to `src.transferTo()` that makes `bytesWritten < n` 
> false and the evaluation of that terminating condition, then it appears that 
> not all the content of `src` will be transferred to `dest`. I am not however 
> sure that this violates any contract but it could be a behavioral change from 
> the existing implementation.

The JavaDocs in `InputStream::transferTo` *cleary* tell the caller that there 
is **no** guarantee of *any* specific behavior in that particular case: 
>The behavior for the case where the input and/or output stream is 
>asynchronously closed, or the thread interrupted during the transfer, is 
>highly input and output stream specific, and therefore not specified.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/4263

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