RFR: (s) 8036095: RMI tests using testlibrary.RMID and testlibrary.JavaVM do not pass through vmoptions

[Stuart Marks]

On 3/5/14 4:57 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 6/03/2014 8:05 AM, Stuart Marks wrote:
>> Please review this fix to change RMI's test library to pass through
>> vmoptions and javaoptions to rmid and other JVM subprocesses.
>
> Are you sure you want to do that? Run everything with -Xcomp for example?

The choice is between not passing the options and passing them through. I think 
it's more surprising not to have the options passed through. For example, the 
test makefiles pass -ea and -esa to jtreg, which adds them to test.vm.opts. Rmid 
and its activation group JVMs are just as much part of the system under test as 
the JDK running the test, so not having these options passed through means that 
we've been testing without assertions enabled in the subprocesses all these 
years. The -D option to set a system property should probably be passed through 
as well. I don't know if this makes sense for -Xcomp though.

s'marks