RFR(S): 8044419: TEST_BUG: com/sun/jdi/JdbReadTwiceTest.sh fails when run under root

Dmitry Samersoff dmitry.samersoff at oracle.com
Mon Jan 19 15:13:30 UTC 2015


Mattias,

After chmod a-r grep will display unpleasant
permission denied error for non root user

so it's better just do:

if id | grep -q 'uid=0('
then
  Do root staff
else
  Do non-root staff
fi

-Dmitry

On 2015-01-19 16:24, Mattias Tobiasson wrote:
> Hi,
> Could I please have a review of this test bug fix.
> 
> Test expects some files to be unreadable. That does not work when
> running as root.
> The fix is to ignore the parts for unreadable files when running as root.
> 
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044419
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~miauno/8044419/webrev.01
> 
> Tested as non-root on all platforms except embedded.
> Tested as root on linux.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mattias
> 


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Dmitry Samersoff
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