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

[Eric Wang]

Hi David,

To use dirFile.length() == 0 to replace the disk space measurement as 
guess the original test tries to prove that there's no extra disk spent 
when creating empty folders.

Regards,
Eric

On 2012/8/22 16:02, David Holmes wrote:
> 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