question: public static void skipFully ( InputStream in , long skip ) throws IOException { try { while ( skip > 0 ) { long skipped = in . skip ( skip ) ; if ( skipped <= 0 ) { throw new EOFException ( ) ; } skip -= skipped ; } } catch ( Exception e ) { throw DbException . convertToIOException ( e ) ; } }
target:  Skip a number of bytes in an input stream.