RFR: JDK-8134458 Make sun/tools/jps tests non-concurrent with other tests

[Martin Buchholz]

Looks ... OK!

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:32 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> On 25 aug 2015, at 19:53, Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com> wrote:
>
> But it is a workaround that only reduces flakiness, right?  If two jtreg
> invocations are on the same machine running concurrently, we still have a
> risk of failure?
>
>
> Yes, but they have to be run by the same user and we “never do that”. This
> isn’t the final fix for the tests, just a quick fix to get the tests to be
> mor stable in our CI server.
>
> /Staffan
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Staffan Larsen <staffan.larsen at oracle.com
> > wrote:
>
>> A new test (tools/launcher/ArgFileSyntax.java) was recently added. One of
>> the things that test does is create command lines with newlines in them. If
>> this is run at the same time as the jps tests, the regexp in the jps tests
>> fails on the newlines in the output. A simple workaround for this is to
>> make sure the jps tests are not being run together with the other tests. We
>> do this by adding the test path to exclusiveAccess.dirs in JTREG.ROOT.
>>
>> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8134458
>>
>> Thanks,
>> /Staffan
>>
>>
>> diff --git a/test/TEST.ROOT b/test/TEST.ROOT
>> --- a/test/TEST.ROOT
>> +++ b/test/TEST.ROOT
>> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
>>  othervm.dirs=java/awt java/beans javax/accessibility javax/imageio
>> javax/sound javax/print javax/management com/sun/awt sun/awt sun/java2d
>> sun/pisces javax/xml/jaxp/testng/validation java/lang/ProcessHandle
>>
>>  # Tests that cannot run concurrently
>> -exclusiveAccess.dirs=java/rmi/Naming java/util/prefs
>> sun/management/jmxremote sun/tools/jstatd sun/security/mscapi
>> java/util/stream javax/rmi
>> +exclusiveAccess.dirs=java/rmi/Naming java/util/prefs
>> sun/management/jmxremote sun/tools/jstatd sun/security/mscapi
>> java/util/stream javax/rmi sun/tools/jps
>>
>>  # Group definitions
>>  groups=TEST.groups [closed/TEST.groups]
>>
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