[9] RFR: 8166531: sun/security/ssl/SocketCreation/SocketCreation.java fails intermittently

[Xuelei Fan]

I'm not sure this update would work.

As this is a special test, it might be possible to copy/past and update 
the template code (or old sample code) here as we did to use the old 
template.

Xuelei

On 12/15/2016 11:23 AM, Artem Smotrakov wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review the patch below for
> sun/security/ssl/SocketCreation/SocketCreation.java test.
>
> The test has been observed to fail intermittently, but I couldn't
> reproduce it by running the test in a loop. The test creates sockets for
> TLS connection in different ways. Even if the test is very old, I
> wouldn't like to change its original behavior. It might be better to use
> SSLSocketTemplate here, but it would require a significant update to
> SSLSocketTemplate, and splitting the test to 5 tests. Instead of this, I
> am proposing to add some simple synchronization on client side where the
> test was seen to fail. If it doesn't work, we can try to use
> SSLSocketTemplate then.
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166531
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~asmotrak/8166531/webrev.00/
>
> Artem
>