On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 17:23 +0800, Weijun Wang wrote: > Please anyone take a review: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~weijun/7176574/webrev.00/ > > By assigning to a local variable hopefully it stays alive on the stack > during the whole method. > > Noreg-self. > > *Chris*: I didn't indented the whole test by wrapping them into a > try-finally (or try-with-resources) block. The test runs in othervm and > I guess the sockets will be closed anyway. > > Thanks > Max > > On 06/13/2012 05:08 PM, Chris Hegarty wrote: > > > > > > On 13/06/2012 09:51, Alan Bateman wrote: > >> On 13/06/2012 09:38, Weijun Wang wrote: > >>> Hi All > >>> > >>> I have a test that basically looks like: > >>> > >>> int p = new ServerSocket(0).getLocalPort(); > >>> //.... > >>> new Socket("localhost", p); > >>> > >>> Recently it's failing on solaris-i586, and after some investigation, I > >>> realize that the ServerSocket object is GC'ed and auto-closed. > >>> > >>> (But why only recently?) > >>> > >>> So I change the first line to > >>> > >>> ServerSocket ss = new ServerSocket(0); > >>> int p = ss.getLocalPort(); > >>> > >>> and it's running fine. > >>> > >>> I want to know if the ServerSocket object still has a chance to be > >>> closed. If yes, I'll add a > >>> > >>> ss.close(); > >>> > >>> at the end to be safer. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Max > >> HotSpot changes I assume, perhaps changes to the reference processing or > >> default heap settings. > > > > Right, I assume there was some VM change that started this test to fail > > recently, but clearly this is a test issue. It was just passing all this > > time by accident, and there is an inherent race between the test and the > > GC/finalizer thread. > > > > You should fix the test as you suggested. Also close the serversocket in > > a finally block ( or equivalent ). You should not rely on the finalizer > > to close it out. > > > > -Chris. > > > >> > >> -Alan
Would this be a good candidate to use Automatic Resource Management ? i.e. instead of doing this: ServerSocket ss1 = null; ServerSocket ss2 = null; try { ss1 = new ServerSocket(0); ss2 = new ServerSocket(0); int p1 = ss1.getLocalPort(); int p2 = ss1.getLocalPort(); //... } finally { if (ss1 != null) ss1.close(); if (ss2 != null) ss2.close(); } one would do this: try (ServerSocket ss1 = new ServerSocket(0); ServerSocket ss2 = new ServerSocket(0)) { int p1 = ss1.getLocalPort(); int p2 = ss1.getLocalPort(); //... } Regards, Neil -- Unless stated above: IBM email: neil_richards at uk.ibm.com IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU