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  2. JDK-6220903

TTY: Race in printing prompt and printing output in the event handler

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        After jdb processes a command, eg, 'step', it (the main thread) prints
        a prompt, eg '>'. When the event handler thread gets an
        event, the event handler sometimes prints a line, eg:
        'Step completed: ...'.
        There is no synch between these prints which means that the
        prompt can appear in the middle of the event handler msg, eg:
           St>ep completed: ....

        This is a bit ugly for the user to have to see, but more importantly,
        it can make jdb tests that expect particular strings in the output
        fail. We have seen this in the test JdbMethodExitTest.sh on solaris-sparc64.


        ###@###.### 2005-1-24 20:21:06 GMT

        This bug affects the following test:

            com/sun/jdi/JdbMethodExitTest.sh

        ###@###.### 2005-03-11 00:57:16 GMT
        This test is also known as:

            closed/com/sun/jdi/JdbMethodExitTest.sh
        A couple of thoughts on this bug:

        - change the test program's compare function to try a more
          tolerant compare if the straight forward compare fails
        - fix jdb to synchronize output between the different
          threads (command processor, event handler, stdout handler, etc)

              jjh James Holmlund (Inactive)
              jjh James Holmlund (Inactive)
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