RFR: Filing bug, ProblemListing, Backing out [v6]

Igor Ignatyev iignatyev at openjdk.java.net
Tue Jul 14 14:54:39 UTC 2020


On Tue, 14 Jul 2020 06:20:22 GMT, Alan Bateman <alanb at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> still LGTM
>
> Filing a Bug - are you going to say anything about checking if the issue exists in the main line, esp. with
> reproducible issues? Also what about advice on attaching a reproducer if possible?
> "ProblemListing or `@ignore`-ing a Test".  The ProblemList.txt files are jtreg exclude list. Can this section be
> renamed to "How to exclude tests"?  I don't think we've used "@ignore" for long time and might it simpler to just not
> mention it.

Hi @AlanBateman,
> I don't think we've used "@ignore" for long time and might it simpler to just not mention it.

`@ignore` is still used, albeit not very often, in hotspot tests for cases similar to the ones described here; given we
are seldomly running ProblemList-ed tests, it would be really unfortunate to have include tests which remove
`/etc/shadow` in such runs.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/guide/pull/21


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