From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17781 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2004 06:47:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact mauve-discuss-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: mauve-discuss-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17769 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2004 06:47:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO piglet.dstc.edu.au) (130.102.176.1) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Oct 2004 06:47:47 -0000 Received: from dstc.edu.au (credence.dstc.edu.au [130.102.105.137]) by piglet.dstc.edu.au (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i986l9QQ020343; Fri, 8 Oct 2004 16:47:09 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200410080647.i986l9QQ020343@piglet.dstc.edu.au> To: Noa Resare cc: Mauve Discuss , crawley@piglet.dstc.edu.au Subject: Re: gnu/testlet/java/nio/channels/FileChannel/manyopen.java broken In-Reply-To: Message from Noa Resare of "Fri, 08 Oct 2004 08:35:12 +0200." <1097217312.1324.43.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 06:47:00 -0000 From: Stephen Crawley X-Spam-Score: 2.567 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 (DSTC) X-SW-Source: 2004-q4/txt/msg00002.txt.bz2 noa@resare.com said: > Since the test doesn't actually test for anything other than the > ability to open many files and the extent of that ability isn't > specified in any spec that I'm aware of I suggest that we remove the > test. Agreed. It should be deleted. This testcase previously used to also (indirectly) check that orphaned file handles were closed by garbage collection finalization. However, this was done by explicitly calling System.gc(), and thus was even more broken that the current version of the testcase. -- Steve