Bug ID: JDK-6892800 [1.4.2] : IOException occurs when Pipe.SinkChannel is set to 3rd arg. of transferTo()

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1.4-poolResolved

When user sets Pipe.SinkChannel to  3rd arg. of transferTo(),
IOException occurs.

CONFIGURATION:
OS : Solaris 10/Fedora9
JDK : 1.4.2_20

REPRODUCE:

1. Compile the attached  transferToPipe.java
2. Invoke java  transferToPipe <org file> <target file> as follows.
 Than you can see an IOException

[guest@dunga]$ java -showversion transferToPipe from to3
java version "1.4.2_20"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_20-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_20-b03, mixed mode)

transferTo : pos=0, len=3854, pos+len=3854
Client
java.io.IOException: Invalid argument
        at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.transferTo0(Native Method)
        at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.transferToDirectly(FileChannelImpl.java:39
2)
        at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.transferTo(FileChannelImpl.java:487)
        at transferToPipe.main(transferToPipe.java:55)
Server
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException
        at java.nio.Buffer.checkBounds(Buffer.java:454)
        at java.nio.HeapByteBuffer.get(HeapByteBuffer.java:125)
        at transferToPipe$Server.run(transferToPipe.java:108)

Duplicate :	JDK-6896219 - (fc) FileChannel.transferTo to DatagramChannel fails with "Operation not supported" (sol)
Relates :	JDK-5056395 - nio does not seem to work with Linux kernel 2.6.4 (and probably above)