What's up with jdk/test/TestEnv.java?

[Joe Darcy]

On 02/02/09 01:37 AM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> Martin Buchholz wrote:
>> I've been trying to get the jtreg tests
>> currently failing with UnknownHostException
>> to start passing instead.
>>
>> I looked at jdk/test/TestEnv.java
>> which looks perfectly designed for our needs.
>>
>> But it's not in openjdk7...!?!?
>> (normally I would expect to see things the other way around)
>> In openjdk7 I just see the hostnames hardcoded into
>> jdk/test/java/nio/channels/TestUtil.java
>>
>> Do y'all plan to forward-port jdk/test/TestEnv.java to openjdk7?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Martin
>>   
> TestEnv was my attempt to centralize the host dependencies so that 
> they could be specified to jtreg as a properties file (and make it a 
> bit easier to run them outside of Sun's network). Joe was anxious we 
> do something about this in 6open so that is why it was pushed there 
> first (back in 6open-b12). It's on my list to push this to the jdk7/tl 
> repository.

For the curious, this is bug 6720349 "(ch) Channels tests depending on 
hosts inside Sun."

-Joe