On Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:50:30 GMT, Bill Huang <bhu...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> test/jdk/java/security/Policy/Root/Root.java line 48:
>>
>>> 46: private static final Path TARGET = Paths.get(ROOT, ".java.policy");
>>> 47: public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>>> 48: Files.copy(SOURCE, TARGET, StandardCopyOption.REPLACE_EXISTING);
>>
>> Could you please use the testng framework for initial setup of test.
>
> This is a @driver test that copies the Root.policy file to the home directory
> before running the RootTest in a new JVM. The reason is that upon the start
> of the new JVM it loads the default system-wide policy file and the default
> user policy file which is the Root.policy we just copied. With the testng
> framework, there is no way to load the custom user policy file without
> reinstalling the security manager in the test, that said, it doesn't match
> what the manual test does.
Discussed with Mahendra offline, testng framework `@BeforeTest` performs test
setup in the client JVM before test starts in the other JVM. We can use testng
framework in this case to handle the policy file operations.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10637
