On Wed, 17 Mar 2021 19:30:54 GMT, Ioi Lam <ik...@openjdk.org> wrote: >> The child does no (zero) writes to either stream. It is invoked only to >> sleep until it is destroyed. >> The purpose of the test is to verify the exception that is thrown when the >> other end(child) of the pipe is closed (because the process has been >> forcibly terminated). > > Hmm, maybe the child can create a file to indicate that bootstrap has > finished.
> The child does no (zero) writes to either stream. It is invoked only to sleep > until it is destroyed. > The purpose of the test is to verify the exception that is thrown when the > other end(child) of the pipe is closed (because the process has been forcibly > terminated). I meant as a consequence of an error. E.g. a crash or a native OOM could cause the child to write an error report to stderr. ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3049