RFR 6791551: ExclusiveBind.java has a race condition

shanliang shanliang.jiang at oracle.com
Tue Feb 4 07:07:13 PST 2014


Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
> On 4.2.2014 09:54, shanliang wrote:
>> Jaroslav,
>>
>> Your fix should work in most case, but is it better and more reliable to
>> wait a VM event as suggested in the bug? even your timeout is adapted to
>> the test time factory, but the solution still depends to a fixed timeout
>> and a  fixed line out.
>
> Well, if I get the test logic correctly it is supposed to test that 
> the agent blocks the port even when no client has connected yet. 
> Connecting to the agent and waiting for the event would change the 
> thing the test checks, actually.
You are right that the test should not attach a VM before launching the 
second debuggee. Let's hope that 5000 * Utils.TIMEOUT_FACTOR works for 
all testing machines.
Looks OK.

Thanks,
Shanliang
>
> -JB-
>
>>
>> Shanliang
>>
>> Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
>>> Please, review the following test fix:
>>>
>>> Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6791551
>>> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/6791551/webrev.00
>>>
>>> The fix prevents the situation when the first debuggee has not managed
>>> to finish its intialization while the second one is started up thus
>>> making the port available for the second debuggee and failing the test.
>>>
>>> The patch is using the library methods to configure and launch the
>>> debuggee and the test waits for the well known string to appear in the
>>> first debuggee output before attempting to launch the second debuggee.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -JB-
>>
>



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