RFR: JDK-8210337: runtime/NMT/VirtualAllocTestType.java failed on RuntimeException missing from stdout/stderr

[Chris Plummer]

Can you summarize how the attach handshaking is suppose to work? I'm 
just wondering why the attacher would ever be looking for the file 
before the attachee has created it. It seems a proper handshake would 
prevent this. Maybe there's some sort of visibility issue where the 
attachee has indeed created the file, but it is not immediately visible 
to the attacher process.

Chris

On 10/2/18 12:27 PM, gary.adams at oracle.com wrote:
> The problem reproduced pretty quickly.
> I added a call to checkPermission and revealed the
> "file not found" from the stat call when the IOException
> was detected.
>
> There has been some flakiness from the Solaris test machines today,
> so I'll continue with the testing a bit longer.
>
> On 10/2/18 3:12 PM, Chris Plummer wrote:
>> Without the fix was this issue easy enough to reproduce that you can 
>> be sure this is resolving it?
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 10/2/18 8:16 AM, Gary Adams wrote:
>>> Solaris debug builds are failing tests that use the attach interface.
>>> An IOException is reported when the java_pid file is not opened.
>>>
>>> It appears that the attempt to attach is taking place too quickly.
>>> This workaround will allow the open operation to be retried
>>> after a short pause.
>>>
>>>   Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gadams/8210337/webrev/
>>>   Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8210337
>>>
>>> Testing is in progress.
>>
>>
>>
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