RFR: 8238263: Create at-requires mechanism for containers

[Harold Seigel]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 19:17:40 GMT, Igor Ignatyev <iignatyev at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Please review this change to add an @requires mechanism called "jdk.containerized" to help mark tests that are incompatible with containers.  Users would add "@requires jdk.containerized != true" to the incompatible tests and then use "make test ... OPTIONS=-Djdk.containerized=true" or "bash jib.sh mach5 -- remote-build-and-test ... --test-make-args JTREG=OPTIONS=-Djdk.containerized=true" to exclude those tests when testing with containers.
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> Hi Harold,
> 
> I actually still think that having a separate ProblemList (as we do for graal, zgc, Xcomp, aot) is a better solution. why did you choose `@requires` over it?
> 
> -- Igor

Hi Igor,
I think it depends on whether the tests will be permanently or temporarily excluded from running with containers.  I thought this mechanism would be to permanently exclude the tests.  That's why I used @requires.
Thanks, Harold

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/844