Code review request: 8006564: Test sun/security/util/Oid/S11N.sh fails with timeout on Linux 32-bit

[Alan Bateman]

On 21/01/2013 01:51, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Please take a look at the webrev at
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8006564/webrev.00/
>
> Bug is
>
>    http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=8006564
>
> The S11N.sh test uses /java to try to access old JDKs. When the test 
> is running at Russia, /java exists but is on the other side of the 
> globe, and a timeout happens.
>
> This fix has created a jdk6-style class and use it to check for 
> compatibility. Not precise but enough for this test.
>
> Thanks
> Max
It's good to see the dependency on /java/re removed but I'm not sure 
that I like the -Xbootclasspath/o:old because it is too tied into the 
implementation.

Have you considered just put the serial versions of the older releases 
into a byte array and have test use that? It would of course require 
having a way to easily re-create the byte array (should be clear 
instructions).

-Alan