RFR 8027058: sun/management/jmxremote/bootstrap/RmiBootstrapTest.sh Failed to initialize connector

[Jaroslav Bachorik]

On 23.10.2013 17:32, Daniel Fuchs wrote:
> Hi Jaroslav,
>
> Have you considered setting a limit on the number of tries you
> will attempt, rather than just 'while (true)'?
> It might avoid creating a busy while loop in case there's some global
> networking issue.

It might be difficult to come up with the right number. Probably a few 
hundred could be enough even for cases when you hit a contiguous range 
of ports occupied by different applications.

-JB-

>
> -- daniel
>
> On 10/23/13 5:16 PM, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
>> Please, review the following test change:
>>
>> Issue:  https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8027058
>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8027058/webrev.00
>>
>> The test fails when the requested port is unavailable. The test logic
>> already runs the subtests with different port numbers (increasing the
>> port number for each subtest) and this patch adds the logic to increase
>> the port number in case of the subtest failure caused by BindException.
>> This way the test is able to "autodiscover" free ports and run the
>> bootstrap subtests successfully.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -JB-
>