[9] review request for 8133318: Exclude intermittent failing PKCS11 tests on Solaris SPARC 11.1 and earlier

[Sean Mullan]

On 08/11/2015 09:14 AM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
> The process exec for uname is only made when the test is run on Solaris SPARC earlier than 11.2 but I take your point.
> I’ll look at caching its value and re-using the util methods.

Actually thinking more about this, and I don't know for sure, but 
agentvm mode may reuse VMs for different update versions of Solaris, so 
a cached value could return the wrong value and cause unexpected 
results. So this is probably not feasible.

--Sean

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>> On 11 Aug 2015, at 13:28, Sean Mullan <sean.mullan at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> There are bunch of methods for determining os.version, etc in jdk/testlibrary/Platform that might be better to reuse.
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>> Did you consider caching the value of "uname -v" so it can be reused by other tests? It seems expensive to exec a process just to get that value every time one of these tests is run.
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>> --Sean
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>> On 08/11/2015 07:34 AM, Vincent Ryan wrote:
>>> Please review this change to omit several PKCS11 tests from test runs on Solaris SPARC 11.1 and earlier.
>>> The tests had been failing intermittently.
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>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vinnie/8133318/webrev.00/
>>> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8133318
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>>> Thanks.
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