Name: szC45993 Date: 02/27/98



The jls, api, and jvm specs say nothing about consequences
of the repeated invocations of the System.exit(). Is it permitable?
Which final result of the jvm exit will be (equal to first invocation
status code or last invocation)? And so on ...
The repeated invocation can be arisen, for example, if the finalizer including
System.exit call will be invocated as a result of jvm exiting through
System.exit(0) after the preliminary System.runFinalizersOnExit(true) call.

It seems, this unpredictability of the specs should be considered as its bugs.
May be, the better way out of this situation is arising of the exception under
the repeated exit() invocation. See also 4109307 bug report.

The JCK vm/concepts/execution/execution075/execution07505/execution07505.html
test demonstrates one of such unpredictable result for jdk1.2b3G (see LOG1
below) when repeated System.exit(0) call leads to situation that the finalizer
is erroneously called multiple times for same object.
Need to note, the result for jdk1.1.6 is correct in this sense (see LOG2
below) so far as there are no repeating finalizer invocations for one object.

========================================== LOG1:

novo7% setenv CLASSPATH /export/home/JAVA/workdir/classes:/export/home/JAVA/sqe_my/harness_release/classes
novo7% /export/ld14/java/dest/jdk1.2b3G/solaris/bin/java -verify javasoft.sqe.tests.vm.execution.execution075.execution07505.execution07505
TRACE: execution07505.run() entry.
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 1
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 2
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 3
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 4
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 5
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 6
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 7

...

TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 980
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 981
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 982
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 983
novo7%

========================================== LOG2:


novo7% /export/ld14/java/dest/jdk1.1.6/solaris/bin/java -verify javasoft.sqe.tests.vm.execution.execution075.execution07505.execution07505
TRACE: execution07505.run() entry.
TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.
TRACE: will do second System.exit(0).
TIMES = 1
novo7%

========================================== SOURCES:

--------------------- execution07505.java
//File: %Z%%M% %I% %E%
//Copyright %G% Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved

package javasoft.sqe.tests.vm.execution.execution075.execution07505;

import java.io.PrintStream;

public class execution07505 {
  static int res = 0;

  public static int run(String argv[], PrintStream out) {

if (res != 95) {
out.println("Could not setup test:");
out.println("The test can check the demanded vm spec assertion only if it is run through the main method because of System.exit() method invoking leads to the JVM terminating.");
return 2;
}

out.println("TRACE: execution07505.run() entry.");

try {
System.runFinalizersOnExit(true);
} catch (java.lang.SecurityException e) {
out.println(e);
out.println("Could not setup test.");
return 2;
}


try {
(Class.forName("javasoft.sqe.tests.vm.execution.execution075.execution07505.execution07505e")).newInstance();
} catch (Throwable e) {
System.out.println("TRACE: Error/Exception in execution07505: "+ e);
return 0;
}

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////// It's main place for test!!!: //////////////////////
System.exit(0);
// However, test is passed only if the result will be equal 95 (not 0!).
// See finalize() methods !
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

out.println("TRACE: execution07505.run() exit.");
return 0;

  }

  public static void main(String argv[]) {
res = 95;
System.exit(run(argv, System.out) + 95/*STATUS_TEMP*/);
  }
}
--------------------- execution07505e.java
//File: %Z%%M% %I% %E%
//Copyright %G% Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved

package javasoft.sqe.tests.vm.execution.execution075.execution07505;

import java.io.PrintStream;

public class execution07505e {
  int i = 1;

  public void finalize() {

System.out.println("TRACE: FINALIZER INVOCATION for execution07505e.");
if (execution07505.res == 95) {
System.out.println("TRACE: will repeat System.exit(0).");
System.out.println("TIMES = "+ i++);
System.exit(0);
}

  }
}
---------------------

Hook 5(hook5): test

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