rmid on Unix fails with Exception - maybe aftermath of JDK-8173607 ??

[Alan Bateman]

On 16/02/2017 14:52, Daniel Fuchs wrote:

> :
>
> I don't think this has anything to do with JDK-8173607.
> JDK-8173607 just splitted the JMX RMI Connector out of
> java.management - and rmid has nothing to do with JMX.
>
> rmid doesn't depend on either java.management or
> java.management.rmi, and I don't see anything
> on the exception path that would involve either
> of these modules.
> So I suspect the culprit is probably elsewhere.
Right, this is nothing to do with the JMX changes. I think this is 
tickled by the recent change from Claes to create the image reader 
lazily. I guess the rmid tests might be disabled because it would have 
otherwise been seen before now.

-Alan