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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
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+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
+ * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
+ * questions.
+ */
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
+import java.lang.ref.Reference;
+import java.lang.ref.WeakReference;
+import java.nio.channels.FileLock;
+import java.nio.channels.OverlappingFileLockException;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import jdk.test.lib.util.FileUtils;
+
+/*
+ * @test
+ * @bug 8166253
+ * @summary Verify that OverlappingFileLockException is thrown when expected.
+ * @library .. /test/lib
+ * @build jdk.test.lib.util.FileUtils
+ * @run main/othervm FileLockGC
+ */
+public class FileLockGC {
+    public enum TestType {
+        NO_GC_NO_RELEASE(true),
+        // A hypothetical 'GC_THEN_RELEASE' case is infeasible
+        RELEASE(false),
+        RELEASE_THEN_GC(false),
+        GC(true);
+
+        private final boolean exceptionExpected;
+
+        TestType(boolean exceptionExpected) {
+            this.exceptionExpected = exceptionExpected;
+        }
+
+        boolean exceptionExpected() {
+            return exceptionExpected;
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+        final File f = new File(System.getProperty("test.dir", ".")
+            + File.separator + "junk.txt");
+        final Path p = f.toPath();
+        int failures = 0;
+
+        for (TestType t : TestType.values()) {
+            try {
+                if (!testFileLockGC(f, t)) {
+                    failures++;
+                }
+            } finally {
+                FileUtils.deleteFileIfExistsWithRetry(p);
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (failures != 0) {
+            throw new RuntimeException("Test had " + failures + " failure(s)");
+        }
+    }
+
+    private static boolean testFileLockGC(File f, TestType type)
+        throws InterruptedException, IOException {
+        System.out.printf("Test %s starting%n", type.toString());
+
+        final RandomAccessFile raf1 = new RandomAccessFile(f, "rw");
+
+        FileLock lock1 = raf1.getChannel().tryLock();
+        WeakReference<FileLock> ref1 = new WeakReference(lock1);
+
+        switch (type) {
+            case GC:
+                lock1 = null;
+                do {
+                    System.gc();
+                    Thread.sleep(10);
+                } while (ref1.get() != null);
+                break;
+            case RELEASE:
+                lock1.release();
+                break;
+            case RELEASE_THEN_GC:
+                lock1.release();
+                lock1 = null;
+                do {
+                    System.gc();
+                    Thread.sleep(10);
+                } while (ref1.get() != null);
+                break;
+            default: // NO_GC_NO_RELEASE
+                // lock1 is neither collected nor released
+                break;
+        }
+
+        final RandomAccessFile raf2 = new RandomAccessFile(f, "rw");
+
+        boolean success = true;
+        FileLock lock2 = null;
+        try {
+            lock2 = raf2.getChannel().tryLock();
+            if (type.exceptionExpected()) {
+                System.err.printf
+                    ("No expected OverlappingFileLockException for test %s%n",
+                    type.toString());
+                success = false;
+            }
+        } catch (OverlappingFileLockException ofe) {
+            if (!type.exceptionExpected()) {
+                System.err.printf
+                    ("Unexpected OverlappingFileLockException for test %s%n",
+                    type.toString());
+                success = false;
+            }
+        } finally {
+            if (lock1 != null) {
+                lock1.release();
+            }
+            if (lock2 != null) {
+                lock2.release();
+            }
+            raf2.close();
+            raf1.close();
+            System.out.printf("Test %s finished%n", type.toString());
+        }
+
+        return success;
+    }
+}