Explanation can be found here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-355
Thomas On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:20 PM, dan bress <danbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Commons IO developers, > I am trying to use IOUtils.skipFully(InputStream, long) to skip a number > of bytes on my input stream. Why does this method call read() on the > InputStream, rather than skip()? In my case, the implementation of my > InputStream does have performance benefits of calling skip() rather than > read(). > > Thanks, > Dan >