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

[Brent Christian]

Will do - thanks, Roger.

-Brent

On 6/30/16 6:46 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
> +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
>