Hi,
The test.dir property seems like a convenience for the test developer.
It is not defined by jtreg in the tag specification as are the other
properties [1].
It is not widely used in tests but could be understandable when manually
testing to
avoid cluttering the working directory with test files.
On the original webrev:
In addition to checking if the directory exists would you want to list
its contents?
And if checking the status of zpath, list its permission attributes?
Is there any chance that a previous delete of zpath has not completed,
(since windows
has the delayed delete if the file is in use behavior).
I think can't think why that would be intermittent though.
$.02, Roger
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jtreg/tag-spec.html#testvars
On 4/26/2017 11:15 AM, Brian Burkhalter wrote:
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.ri...@oracle.com
<mailto:roger.ri...@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 ".").
