Thank you for the feedback Alan.
> On Oct 18, 2019, at 7:18 AM, Alan Bateman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 16/10/2019 18:06, Lance Andersen wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Please review this fix to ZipFileInputStream::skip when specifying a 
>> negative value to the skip method when accessing a STORED entry, 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231451 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8231451>.  Prior to this fix, you 
>> could move past the beginning of the STORED entry.
>> 
>> I also added a release note, 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232384 
>> <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8232384>, to help clarify the 
>> behavior of these methods when a negative value is specified.
>> 
>> The webrev can be found at: 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lancea/8231451/webrev.00/index.html 
>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~lancea/8231451/webrev.00/index.html>
>> 
> This seems to introduce inconsistency in that an attempt to seek beyond EOF 
> will return the number of bytes skipped or 0 where as attempting to seek to 
> before the start will throw IOException.

Yes I noticed this also but thought (at the time) throwing the exception made 
sense in the case moving past BOF…  

> It might be a corner case but a better alternative might be to seek to 
> position 0, returning the number of bytes that were (negatively) skipped to 
> get to 0.

I can make the change you propose and update the release note and send a 
revised patch.

Thank you.

Best
Lance
> 
> -Alan.

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