[8u-dev] RFR 8190690: Impact on krb5 test cases in the 8u-CPU nightly

[Seán Coffey]

Looks like some test clients can have old configuration files which 
trigger early loading of InetAddress. Your edits look fine and hardens 
the testcase against such issues.

regards,
Sean.

On 09/11/2017 09:04, Weijun Wang wrote:
> Please review the fix at
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/8190690/webrev.00/
>
> Before this fix, a static block in KDC.java set a customized name service provider. Some recent change (jdk8u161?) inside JDK might have added a name lookup before this provider is set and the provider is never loaded.
>
> This is a <=jdk8u issue. We switch to a different mechanism in jdk9.
>
> This fix just sets the provider right on the command line, for example:
>
> - * @run main/othervm Basic
> + * @run main/othervm -Dsun.net.spi.nameservice.provider.1=ns,mock Basic
>
> BasicProc.java and ReplayCacheTestProc.java launch child processes, the system property is also set on the child processes.
>
> Thanks
> Max
>