Hi, Please find below a test stabilization fix for:
8129315: java/net/Socket/LingerTest.java and java/net/Socket/ShutdownBoth.java timeout intermittently http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~dfuchs/webrev_8129315/webrev.00/index.html While testing I stumbled on some other tests failing intermittently for the fame reasons and went ahead and fixed some of them too. Tests fixed in this batch: test/jdk/java/net/Socket/LingerTest.java test/jdk/java/net/Socket/ShutdownBoth.java test/jdk/java/net/Socks/SocksIPv6Test.java test/jdk/sun/net/www/http/HttpURLConnection/PostOnDelete.java The crux of the issue is that using the wildcard address to bind test servers makes them susceptible of receiving traffic from other processes/tests on the same machine, and make them also susceptible of not receiving traffic that was intended for them, if some other process has managed to bind on a specific address with the same port number. I have started a longer background investigation task to identify and fix the other tests that may present the same symptoms, so more RFRs like this one will probably come in the future. best regards, -- daniel