This bug relates to this discussion:
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/core-libs-dev/2010-August/004782.html
and is probably a regression caused by 6944584.
Here's how the test fails on Linux:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError
at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue.<init>(SynchronousQueue.java:827)
at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue.<init>(SynchronousQueue.java:817)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors.newCachedThreadPool(Executors.java:194)
at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<clinit>(UNIXProcess.java:120)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:128)
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:1016)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:610)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:448)
at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:345)
at SecurityManagerClinit.main(SecurityManagerClinit.java:71)
Caused by: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "accessClassInPackage.java.util.concurrent")
at java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater$AtomicReferenceFieldUpdaterImpl.<init>(AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater.java:217)
at java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater.newUpdater(AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater.java:93)
at java.util.concurrent.SynchronousQueue$TransferStack.<clinit>(SynchronousQueue.java:294)
... 10 more
Caused by: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied ("java.lang.RuntimePermission" "accessClassInPackage.java.util.concurrent")
at java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.java:345)
at java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:555)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:549)
at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPackageAccess(SecurityManager.java:1529)
at sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil.checkPackageAccess(ReflectUtil.java:134)
at sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil.checkPackageAccess(ReflectUtil.java:119)
at java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater$AtomicReferenceFieldUpdaterImpl.<init>(AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater.java:214)
... 12 more