That was it! :) The same old canonical path cache. Looking at the JDK
code, I still am not sure which exact code path triggers this
stale/invalid cache in this specific case, but apparently it does.
[exec] [junit] Testsuite:
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.optional.unix.SymlinkTest
[exec] [junit] Tests run: 6, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time
elapsed: 0.276 sec
-Jaikiran
On 19/12/17 5:02 PM, bode...@apache.org wrote:
Repository: ant
Updated Branches:
refs/heads/master c2c821a38 -> 3dad11d41
disable a bunch of caches, just so we've tried that as well
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/commit/3dad11d4
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/tree/3dad11d4
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/diff/3dad11d4
Branch: refs/heads/master
Commit: 3dad11d4191074a95b0d83397e73a99bd5b3f0c1
Parents: c2c821a
Author: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>
Authored: Tue Dec 19 12:31:26 2017 +0100
Committer: Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org>
Committed: Tue Dec 19 12:31:26 2017 +0100
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build.xml | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/ant/blob/3dad11d4/build.xml
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diff --git a/build.xml b/build.xml
index 36df7a4..0939eb5 100644
--- a/build.xml
+++ b/build.xml
@@ -1665,6 +1665,8 @@ ${antunit.reports}
<sysproperty key="tests.and.ant.share.classloader"
value="${tests.and.ant.share.classloader}"/>
<sysproperty key="java.io.tmpdir" file="${build.junit.tmpdir}"/>
+ <sysproperty key="sun.io.useCanonCaches" value="false"/>
+ <sysproperty key="sun.io.useCanonPrefixCache" value="false"/>
<classpath>
<path refid="tests-runtime-classpath"/>
<pathelement location="${junit.collector.dir}"/>
