RFR [8024521] (process) Async close issues with Process InputStream

[Rob McKenna]

Happy to vounteer for sponsorship duties. Been following this from the 
sidelines.

     -Rob

On 22/10/13 20:01, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 18/10/2013 17:00, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
>> Thank you Martin for the references.
>>
>> I've implemented passing the limitation to the application in a 
>> similar manner.
>> The timeout value is passed to the test through the CloseRaceTimeout 
>> system property.
>> If the property wasn't set, the default value of 2 minutes is used.
>> When the application creates its child process, this value is passed 
>> through the argument list.
>>
>> In any ways this test should be run by jtreg harness, since it uses 
>> 'testlibrary' for dealing with the child process.
>> However, when run by hands, there's a way to specify for how long it 
>> should work.
>>
> Ivan - do you have a sponsor for this one? It would be good to get 
> this out of the way before ZBB.
>
> On the default timeout in the test then I'd prefer it to be something 
> like 20s or 30s rather than 2 minutes. The reason is that we don't 
> currently have any distinction between stress tests and other types of 
> tests and so people tend to just run all the tests for an area (hence 
> 2 minutes is a long time as we need the tests to execute as quickly as 
> possible).
>
> -Alan.