code review request: 7122169: TcpTimeout fail for various reasons

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/12/2011 01:52, Weijun Wang wrote:
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> I'm not sure. The time consumed is from Socket::setSoTimeout(). Do you 
> know if it's connected to clock time (currentTimeMillis) or elapsed 
> time (nanoTime)?
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I think this timeout is specified by elapsed but the implementations use 
JVM_CurrentTimeMillis or in the case of Windows, a timeout provided by 
the kernel. My guess is that if this test is changed to use 
System.currentTimeMillis that it may be more robust but you will need to 
try it.

-Alan