On Mon, 1 Apr 2024 02:02:40 GMT, Jaikiran Pai <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> Can I please get a review of this change which proposes to fix the test 
> failure reported in https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8328273?
> 
> As noted in that issue, the 
> `sun/management/jmxremote/bootstrap/RmiRegistrySslTest.java` intermittently 
> fails with a port already in use error. The test attempts to find a free port 
> and then uses it during the test. The interesting part is that the test 
> already has a loop of 10 attempts to retry the test if the port wasn't 
> actually free. So for the test to fail, it would then mean that each of the 
> 10 attempts of using a free port failed (which should be extremely rare and 
> should almost never happen). 
> 
> I didn't have an answer for that until today and had it on my TODO to look 
> further. Credit goes to Kevin @kevinjwalls for identifying the issue - turns 
> out this is the exact same issue that Kevin fixed in 
> https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/18470 for a different test. After 
> noticing that fix, I spotted the same typo in the exception message check in 
> this test. That explains why it wasn't retrying at most 10 times. The test 
> was thus immediately failing on first attempt whenever the chosen free port 
> was in use.
> 
> I have run this test with a test repeat of 50 with this change and the test 
> now passes always. Without this change and a test repeat of 50, the test 
> failed 2 times. I've additionally searched for any other similar typos in 
> other tests and haven't found any (I searched for the string "Exception 
> thrown by the agent :").

Thumbs up. This is a trivial fix.

@jaikiran - Thanks for fixing this bug!!

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Marked as reviewed by dcubed (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18561#pullrequestreview-1972108656

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