JDK 9 test-only RFR of 8179247: java/util/zip/TestExtraTime.java: add some instrumentation which might illuminate the failure of 2016-09-14

[Brian Burkhalter]

I was wondering whether test.dir is there to allow to direct to large disks if large files are involved. This is a general observation, not just for this test.

Brian

On Apr 26, 2017, at 6:37 AM, Roger Riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com> wrote:

> I would keep it simple and use the current form. It make it easy to run the tests standalone.
>  dir = System.getProperty("test.dir", ".")
> 
> Adding in the additional "user.dir" variant just complicates the code and understanding without improving the use cases.   (by default user.dir is set to the absolute pathname of ".").