RFR 8005226: TEST_BUG: java/rmi/transport/pinClientSocketFactory/PinClientSocketFactory.java fails intermittently

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Chris,

Is the choice of 9999 as the ephemeral port ok?
Though it is artificial is there any chance it will be confused with a 
real port?

Would a negative number   (or zero) work just as well for this purpose?
Or does it get rejected in one of the layers it has to pass through.

typo:  "support listing on an ephemeral port"-> "support *listening* on 
an ephemeral port"

Roger


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeral_port

On 3/4/2015 10:01 AM, Chris Hegarty wrote:
> This is a small, test only, review request to fix an intermittently 
> failing test.
>
> There is an inherent race, and possible failure, following the 
> getUnusedRandomPort pattern. This test can be modified to use a custom 
> socket factory, supporting listening on an ephemeral port, without 
> changing the behavior of the test.
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8005226/webrev.00/webrev/
>
> -Chris.