Hi,

I recently noticed a semantic change in the FileInputStream for JDK 1.2
for solaris and figured I would mention it. In JDK 1.1.x a read would
seemingly read all the available bytes such that:

  length = in.available();
  byte_array = new byte[length];
  bytes_read = in.read(byte_array, 0, length);

Would read all 'length' bytes. In JDK 1.2 on solaris the read seems to only read
the first 2k bytes.

I've attached a simple test program that demonstrates this. I compiled it
on 1.1.2, and ran it with the following results:

(on 1.1.2:)

gerlach-76% java StreamsTest /etc/passwd
available bytes: 532
bytes read : 532

gerlach-77% java StreamsTest /home/bhc/images/sack2.gif
available bytes: 151684
bytes read : 151684

And on 1.2:

gerlach-89% java StreamsTest /etc/passwd
available bytes: 532
bytes read : 532

gerlach-90% java StreamsTest /home/bhc/images/sack2.gif
available bytes: 151684
bytes read : 2048

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Now if you correctly continue to read from that stream you will receive all the
bytes but this semantic change should at least be documented.