RFR: 8149599: Update Minefield test

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Tue May 17 02:06:19 UTC 2016


Looks good to me!  I'm happy my weird little test is stil earning its keep.

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Jonathan Gibbons
<jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> This is a change to re-enable the venerable MineField.sh test, which has
> been somewhat hacked and eventually disabled during the development of
> Project Jigsaw.
>
> While cleaning up and translating the test into Java code, it uncovered a
> bug in classpath handling in the runtime (JDK-8156989, already fixed by Alan
> B), and so the shell form of the test has been given a stay of execution for
> a while.
>
> There is a comment in the code to explain the rationale for the JDK 9
> cleanup.
>
> JBS:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8149599
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jjg/8149599/webrev.01/
>
> webrev.00 has the test case that exposed JDK-8156989 commented out;
> webrev.01 has that test case enabled.
>
> -- Jon


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