So if I make this change to the webrev
--- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java
+++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/InputStream.java
@@ -333,8 +333,7 @@
*
* @param n the number of bytes to be skipped.
* @return the actual number of bytes skipped.
- * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs, such as attempting to
- * seek to a negative position in a seek-based implementation.
+ * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs.
*/
public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
do we have consensus?
Thanks,
Brian
On Jun 3, 2016, at 11:34 AM, Pavel Rappo <pavel.ra...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3 Jun 2016, at 19:30, Bernd Eckenfels <e...@zusammenkunft.net> wrote:
>>
>> It is unclear to me if this is really forbidden in the interface or in
>> any implementation. With FileInputStream skip(-5) works.
>
> Don't mistake `seek` for `skip`. `skip` can be implemented using `read`, but
> may be using `seek`.
>
> Here's the API point of view:
>
> * If {@code n} is
> * negative, the {@code skip} method for class {@code InputStream} always
> * returns 0, and no bytes are skipped. Subclasses may handle the negative
> * value differently.
>
> Thanks,
> -Pavel
>
>
