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

[Roger Riggs]

+1

Can you wrap a couple of very long lines to make the diff easier to read.
- 187
- 202

Thanks, Roger


On 6/29/2016 7:47 PM, Mandy Chung wrote:
>> 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