RFR: 8046883 com/sun/jdi/ProcessAttachTest.sh gets "java.io.IOException: Invalid process identifier" on windows

[Alan Bateman]

On 17/06/2014 09:24, Staffan Larsen wrote:
> This is yet another fallout of the bug in the ps command in cygwin that causes it to sometimes miss process in the list.
>
> In this case I cannot use jps to list the processes since one of the test cases launches jdwp with suspend=y which suspends the VM before it is visible to jps. Instead I retry the ps command 10 times hoping that it works eventually.
>
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sla/8046883/webrev.00/test/com/sun/jdi/ProcessAttachTest.sh.sdiff.html
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046883
>
I don't understand the bug in cygwin but I just wonder if it's a timing 
issue. If it is then maybe it would be better to sleep 2 at line 79 into 
the loop as a sleep 1?

-Alan.