On Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:12:41 GMT, Andy Goryachev <[email protected]> wrote:

>> In general, I'm not a fan of adding hard-numbered sleep times. Either the 
>> expected events are delivered, or they are not (yet). The hard sleep pattern 
>> leads to either slowdowns or to failing tests on slow environments.
>> Using CountdownLatches and deterministic flows is much better for testing, 
>> imho.
>> Since the Util.sleep is widely used in other system tests, I'm ok with using 
>> it here as well -- but I still think it is a dangerous approach.
>
> I agree with @johanvos , it's always better to wait for the lock (with a 
> timeout)

Better, sure, but it isn't always possible in practice. There are times where a 
delay is still needed.

This test now waits for the lock on the condition that will lead to the thread 
shutting down. Good. It's still necessary to sleep for a small time to be sure 
that it has.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1934#discussion_r2426823217

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