On 17/01/2014 02:30, Rob Sanders wrote:
> Would it be worth waiting to have the RHEL6/FIPS stuff looked at - at least 
> to the point of deciding if the issue should involve fixes to both TC and TCN 
> or be limited to TCN only?    I posted Monday and earlier today about it.  
> I believe the minimal patch to resolve the issue would involve TCN only 
> however.

My working assumption is that the minimal patch will be the solution for
at least 6.0.x so I am going to go ahead with my plans for tagging 6.0.x.

Mark


> 
> -Rob
> 
> On Jan 16, 2014, at 6:54 PM, Mark Thomas wrote:
> 
>> It has been a while since the last 6.0.x release so I plan to tag 6.0.38
>> tomorrow (if all goes well). There are a couple of simple patches in the
>> status file that I'd like to include in the tag. Votes welcome.
>>
>> In preparation for the tag, I have been running the Servlet and JSP
>> TCKs. There are some failures but I think it is OK to ignore them.
>> Before creating the tag, I wanted to see what others thought.
>>
>> I have traced the root causes to the following:
>>
>> 1. My inability to ever configure my environment correctly to get the
>> API signature checks to pass. I recall I always had this issue when
>> running the TCK for Tomcat 6 and earlier. I have manually checked the
>> API and I am happy it is specification compliant.
>>
>> 2. If tldValidation is enabled, ServletContext.getInitParameterNames()
>> returns a non-empty enumeration even though the application has not set
>> any init parameters. I think this is OK.
>>
>> 3. If tldValidation is enabled, some the the JSP tests that use invalid
>> TLDs fail. I think this is OK.
>>
>> 4. If a security manager is enabled,
>> ServletContext.getInitParameterNames() returns a non-empty enumeration
>> even though the application has not set any init parameters. I think
>> this is OK.
>>
>> As an aside, I am going to update the config for running the TCKs for
>> Tomcat 6 to disable tldValidation. This will address 2 & 3 above.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> PS Don't forget the status file :)
>>
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