RFR [6943190] TEST_BUG: java/lang/Runtime/exec/ExecWithInput.java hardcodes path to cat

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/03/2014 16:52, Ivan Gerasimov wrote:
>
> Would you please take a look at the updated webrev with your 
> suggestions incorporated:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~igerasim/6943190/3/webrev/

Ivan - I see that a number of the tests have been changed to /othervm 
and I'm wondering what the reason for this is. Clearly tests for Process 
will be launching new VMs but it would be great if we could avoid having 
to launch a VM for the test "main" too.

Another general comment is that if a command is not found the tests will 
now pass and the only way to know that anything has gone wrong is to 
look in the .jtr file. I would personally prefer the tests to fail so 
that any issues in the environment or special-casing for new ports can 
be found quickly.

For the Linux or Solaris-only tests then the tests now output an 
information message via System.err, I assume this should be System.out 
as it's not really an error or usage message.

On the places to search then I'm wondering about /system/bin. Is that 
needed? I assume that if there is a port to an operating system that 
uses this location then it will be added as part of the port.

-Alan.