On 8/29/13 5:34 PM, Alan Bateman wrote: > On 29/08/2013 16:19, Seán Coffey wrote: >> Simple testcase ignore request. This test causes issue for systems if run as >> root. It's already been excluded in JDK 8 via a problemlist update >> (7081813). Would like to port to 7u-dev. Need a reviewer also. > That test has had @ignore in jdk8 for some time, I didn't realize that it > wasn't @ignore-d in jdk7u. The change looks okay although adding 8023964 to > the @bug might be confusion as it's not a test for that bug. > > Hopefully someone will take pity on that test someday and either fix it or > shoot it. I vaguely remember Pavel Tisnovsky from Red Hat started to work on > it but it was the jdk7 end-game and I don't think the patch went in.
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