Default setting for -retain

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 01/21/2013 05:06 AM, Christian Törnqvist wrote:
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> >From the docs of the -retain flag:
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> "Specify files to be retained after each test completes executing. If -retain is not specified, only the files from the last test executed will be retained. If -retain is specified with no argument, all files will be retained."
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> I think the default value should be to retain the files from all failed tests. I recently ended up spending over an hour reproducing an intermittent JVM crash (to get the hs_err and core file that wasn't saved the first time) since I had forgot to add -retain:fail to my command line when running the tests.
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> Best regards,
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> Christian

In general, I recommend using a wrapper script to set the options that 
work best for you.

-- Jon