RFR(S): JDK-8029808 com/sun/jdi/ProcessAttachTest.sh times out

[Dmitry Samersoff]

Alan,

Do you know any official statements about MKS support for jdk8 and jdk9?

Could we drop MKS support?

Bad MKS habit to run extra shell is most of pid-related troubles with
tests.

-Dmitry

On 2014-01-30 21:09, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 30/01/2014 16:59, Dmitry Samersoff wrote:
>> Staffan,
>>
>> No it's not to your code. Sorry for not being clean enough.
>>
>> You cleaned up unix code, but windows code remains bad. Particularly, it
>> has bad unconditional sleep 2
>>
>> I would propose replace *windows manipulation with CYGWIN/MKS pids* to
>> call to JPS that return windows pid
>>
> I have a vague memory that we had to use ps to get the pid because of
> the suspend=y test which cause the debuggee to suspect during startup. I
> might be wrong on this of course, it was a long time ago.
> 
> -Alan


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Dmitry Samersoff
Oracle Java development team, Saint Petersburg, Russia
* I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the sources.