RFR 9 : 8160370 : System.getProperty("os.version") returns "Unknown" on Mac

[Brent Christian]

Thank you, Dave and Gerard.
I believe I still need to hear from a JDK9 Reviewer.

Thanks,
-Brent
On 06/29/2016 01:08 PM, David DeHaven wrote:
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> Fix looks good to me too.
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> -DrD-
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>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:54 PM, Gerard Ziemski <gerard.ziemski at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> hi Brent,
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>> Thank you for fixing the original issue and for putting in this follow-up fix!
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>> Looks good! (for full disclosure I proposed the workaround)
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>>
>> cheers
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>>> On Jun 29, 2016, at 2:36 PM, Brent Christian <brent.christian at oracle.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Please review the following change for JDK 9:
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>>> Bug:
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8160370
>>> Webrev:
>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bchristi/8160370/webrev.00/
>>>
>>> The fix for 7131356 fills in the "os.version" system property on Mac using [NSProcessInfo operatingSystemVersion], available starting in Mac OS 10.9.
>>>
>>> While JDK 9 will not support versions of Mac OS prior to 10.9 [1], not all testing infrastructure has been updated, and we've seen failures of
>>>
>>> java/lang/System/OsVersionTest.java
>>>
>>> The code to restore behavior on older Mac systems is only a few lines, so that seems like a good way to get testing going again.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> -Brent
>>>
>>> 1. https://jdk9.java.net/jdk9_supported_platforms.html
>>> 2. https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156132
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