[9] RFR of JDK-8085192: java/rmi/activation/Activatable tests fail intermittently due to "Port already in use"

[Hamlin Li]

Hi Joe, Roger,

Modified based on your latest comments, please check the new webrev: 
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mli/8085192/webrev.02/
At the same time, I think Chris's idea is great.

Thank you
-Hamlin

On 2016/9/30 7:14, Joseph D. Darcy wrote:
> If Hamlin's approach is taken in the end, I think having a smaller 
> retry count (5 or 10 rather than 20) would be more appropriate to 
> avoid making the worst-case running time longer than necessary.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Joe
>
> On 9/29/2016 6:55 AM, Roger Riggs wrote:
>> Hi Hamlin,
>>
>> One more suggested improvement.   Instead of two copy/paste copies of 
>> the launch with options code,
>> it would cleaner to create a separate RMID.launch(String[] options) 
>> method that would be passed the extra arguments.
>> Use it in forceLogSnapshot.java and ShutdownGracefully.java.
>>
>> The (current) no-arg version could call the version with args with an 
>> empty array(or null).
>> There would be only 1 copy of the launch algorithm.
>>
>> Roger
>>
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