RFR [9] 8146359: test/java/nio/file/attribute/BasicFileAttributeView/UnixSocketFile.java fails when nc is not available

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at oracle.com
Tue Jan 5 19:38:07 UTC 2016



On 05/01/2016 18:33, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
>
> On Jan 5, 2016, at 4:36 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com 
> <mailto:Alan.Bateman at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>>> The change is to execute ‘which nc’ to check whether ‘nc’ is 
>>> available and if not then skip the test.
>>>
>> This looks okay. There might be test infrastructure that could help 
>> with this too.
>
> I’m not sure what infrastructure that would be. I don’t see anything 
> in the jtreg tag specification which appears useful in this context. 
> So, is this good to go or is further research in order?
>
I meant @library infrastructure, in this case 
jdk.testlibrary.ProcessTools. No worry about it for now, it's just 
something to be aware of when creating tests like this.

-Alan
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