RFR: JDK-8285987: executing shell scripts without #! fails on Alpine linux

[Matthias Baesken]

On Thu, 5 May 2022 13:43:30 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> A couple a tests like java/lang/ProcessBuilder/Basic.java#id0.Basic_id0 and jdk/jshell/ExternalEditorTest.java.ExternalEditorTest try to start small shell scripts without #! at the first line of the script. This fails with error=8, Exec format error when running on Alpine 3.15 .
>> Looks like this is a known issue on musl / Alpine, see also
>> https://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2018/03/09/2
>> and
>> https://github.com/scala-steward-org/scala-steward/issues/1374
>> (we see it on Alpine 3.15).
>
> test/lib/jdk/test/lib/Platform.java line 192:
> 
>> 190:     }
>> 191: 
>> 192:     public static boolean isMusl() {
> 
> I think this will need test/lib/TestMutuallyExclusivePlatformPredicates.java to be updated too.

Hi Alan, thanks for the advice;  do you think we can put it into the IGNORED group ?
https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/test/lib-test/jdk/test/lib/TestMutuallyExclusivePlatformPredicates.java#L53

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8535