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

[Ivan Gerasimov]

Thank you Rob for offering the sponsor's help!
Here's the exported patch: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/2commit/8024521-jdk8-Async-close-race.patch

Alan, I reduced the default time gap to 20 seconds as you suggested.

Sincerely yours,
Ivan


On 22.10.2013 23:14, Rob McKenna wrote:
> Happy to vounteer for sponsorship duties. Been following this from the 
> sidelines.
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>     -Rob
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> 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.
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