RFR: 8005582 - java/lang/Runtime/exec/WinCommand.java intermittent test failures (original) (raw)

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Wed Jan 9 19:33:55 UTC 2013

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Jim Gish <jim.gish at oracle.com> wrote:

I'm in the process of adding deletion retry behavior to jtreg, but in the meantime we think it makes sense to provide a more stable test environment by simply getting rid of the redundant deletes by the test itself. There really is no need for tests to delete files from the scratch directory at the end of a test because jtreg carries a guarantee of cleanup.

I consider it good practice for a test to delete temporary files - it's just a java program that might be run outside of the test harness.

Perhaps there's a deeper problem - why does the file system present inconsistent views? Is it a Windows bug?

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