RFR: JDK-8235738: tools/jpackage/macosx/NameWithSpaceTest.java failed due to exit code 134

Phil Race philip.race at oracle.com
Fri Dec 13 17:39:45 UTC 2019


> testForPresenseOnly  It should be spelt testForPresenceOnly -phil.



On 12/13/19 6:16 AM, Andy Herrick wrote:
> I approve these changes.
>
> My first thought was that, if reading output only after Process is 
> complete is valid and safe, then why not do it that way all the time 
> ?  But comment in Process javadoc: "Because some native platforms only 
> provide limited buffer size for standard input and output streams, 
> failure to promptly write the input stream or read the output stream 
> of the process may cause the process to block, or even deadlock." 
> indicates is is prudent to do this only when necessary.
>
> My second thought is that this indicates an underlying unidentified 
> bug in the mac native code used by Process or ProcessBuilder , and 
> although it would be better to identify and resolve the underlying 
> problem, the fix is needed now, so this change seems appropriate.
>
> /Andy
>
> On 12/13/2019 1:01 AM, Alexander Matveev wrote:
>> Please review fix [2] for jpackage bug [1].
>>
>> Not sure why it happens, but reading output from "hdiutil attach" was 
>> not exiting immediately after process terminated with delays upto 20 
>> seconds always and in some case upto 10 minutes and thus test was 
>> timeout. Only possible workaround found is to wait for "hdiutil 
>> attach" process to exit before reading output. In this case call to 
>> "hdiutil attach" and reading output happens very fast and does not 
>> hang for long time. Generating simple DMG image went from ~40 seconds 
>> to ~20 seconds after fix. Test was done with verbose output enabled.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alexander
>>
>> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8235738
>>
>> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~almatvee/8235738/webrev.00/



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