What's the point of test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/jsig?

[Thomas Matthijs]

Maybe this one ? apologies if incorrect

http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-runtime-dev/2016-May/019305.html


On Sun, 23 Sep 2018 at 15:53, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com> wrote:

> This was done by:
>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/hs/hotspot/rev/a0cdf5e20489
>
> "8144279: [TESTBUG] hotspot/runtime/jsig/Test8017498.sh should use
> native library build support"
>
> I would have to guess the main test file was not hg added for the
> commit. But I can't find the code review for it.
>
> I've filed:
>
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-821104
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
> On 21/09/2018 6:48 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> > Hi Severin,
> >
> > I would have to guess that this was intended to be converted to a Java
> > test and either the main test file was not hg added, or else ...
> >
> > I can't find the changeset that removed the sh file to try and see what
> > happened. Between file renames and repo reorgs hg log doesn't seem to be
> > able to track this.
> >
> > David
> >
> > On 21/09/2018 11:22 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/jsig seems to have come in with JDK-8017498.
> >> However, corresponding Test8017498.sh seems to have been removed since
> >> and nothing exercises this code as far as I can see. I wonder what's
> >> the point of it?
> >>
> >> There are two options as I see it:
> >>
> >> 1)
> >> Remove dead code in test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/jsig
> >>
> >> 2)
> >> Rework old Test8017498.sh[1] so that it actually uses classes/natives
> >> in test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/jsig.
> >>
> >> Which one should it be? I can work on a webrev once it's known what do
> >> do.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Severin
> >>
> >> [1]
> >>
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk/jdk/file/352debf44a39/hotspot/test/runtime/jsig/Test8017498.sh
> >>
> >>
>