On Fri, 26 Aug 2022 13:48:54 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Can I please get a review of this change to the testing documentation which 
>> adds a note about failure handlers in jtreg? This addresses 
>> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292911.
>> 
>> Recently, there have been users who have been prompted for sudo password 
>> when running jtreg tests locally and those tests running into failures. This 
>> is because one of the commands that gets executed by the jtreg failure 
>> handler uses sudo (the `sudo dmesg` command on macos).
>> 
>> This commit updates the `testing.md` to explain what the failure handler 
>> does and also mentions the configuration that can be used to disable the 
>> failure handler. This commit doesn't specify how to configure the `sudoers` 
>> file if the user still wants to allow the failure handlers to run, because I 
>> thought that would be outside the scope of this documentation.
>> 
>> I attempted to auto generate the `testing.html` from the changes to 
>> `testing.md` using the `make update-build-docs` command, but that generated 
>> a lot of unnecessary diffs not just in `testing.html` but other html files 
>> in the `doc` directory. So, as suggested in a different PR which involved 
>> updates to these files, I manually added the section to the `testing.html` 
>> too.
>
> Jaikiran Pai has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional 
> commit since the last revision:
> 
>   fix line length

Thank you everyone for the reviews.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10021

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