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

[Mandy Chung]

> On Jun 29, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Brent Christian <brent.christian at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Please review the following change for JDK 9:
> 
> 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.

I think we should move away from testing on unsupported platforms.  Is this just temporary?  when will this be removed?

Mandy