RFR: JDK-8314272: Improve java.util.prefs.BackingStoreException: Couldn't get file lock.

Mon Aug 21 06:51:33 UTC 2023

On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 06:15:07 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <jpai at openjdk.org> wrote:

> if multiple tests are running and try to acquire this file lock, then they might end up interfering with each other, but it's surprising that in some cases even after multiple attempts the file lock doesn't become available.

How long is the file-lock typically held? How many such tests can run concurrently? And how long do we retry for?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15308#issuecomment-1685748176