*** old/test/java/lang/invoke/lambda/LogGeneratedClassesTest.java	Tue May 27 17:14:28 2014
--- new/test/java/lang/invoke/lambda/LogGeneratedClassesTest.java	Tue May 27 17:14:28 2014

*** 173,182 ****
--- 173,188 ----
              // but jtreg will report failure so we just pass the test
              // which we can look at if jtreg changed its behavior
              return;
          }
  
+         if ("root".equals(System.getProperty("user.name"))) {
+             // Super user can create files in read-only directories (at least on Linux & Solaris).
+             // The test is not applicable in that case.
+             return;
+         }
+ 
          Files.createDirectory(Paths.get("readOnly"),
                                asFileAttribute(fromString("r-xr-xr-x")));
  
          TestResult tr = doExec(JAVA_CMD.getAbsolutePath(),
                                 "-cp", ".",