[PATCH] Review request: 6962637 TEST_BUG: java/io/File/MaxPathLength.java may fail in busy system

[David Holmes]

Hi Eric,

On 22/08/2012 5:54 PM, Eric Wang wrote:
> Please help to review the fix below for bug **6962637
> <http://monaco.us.oracle.com/detail.jsf?cr=6962637> TEST_BUG:
> java/io/File/MaxPathLength.java may fail in busy system
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/90659131/fixes/6962637/webrev/index.html
>
> Root cause is the test is not reliable when system is busy, if disk
> space is changed by some other program, test can fail. so the fix is to
> check file.length() instead of disk space.

I can not figure out what the original version of the test was doing 
with the disk space measurements but I can certainly appreciate that 
they could be changing dynamically while the test is running.

But I don't really understand why dirFile is expected to have a zero 
length ???

David

> Regards,
> Eric