On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 02:54:36 GMT, Ioi Lam <ik...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR tries to cut down the use of `WhiteBox` in the HotSpot test cases. It 
> modifies `VMProps` to save the set of VM properties into a file called 
> "vm.properties" under Jtreg's work directory. The new API 
> `jdk.test.lib.VMPropsGetter` loads the properties from this file to pass onto 
> individual test cases.
> 
> See `getJtregWorkDir()` for the code that figures out the work directory. It 
> assumes that `VMProps` and all test cases are always executed under
> 
> - `workDir/scratch/` ; or
> - `workDir/scratch/[0-9]+/` 
> 
> This is probably not the right thing to do. I would be better for Jtreg to 
> pass the location of the work directory to the test cases, with a 
> command-line options like `-Djtreg.work.dir=<dir>`.
> 
> To show the benefit of this PR, I modified a few test cases to remove their 
> use of WhiteBox.

This pull request has been closed without being integrated.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24071

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