8202794: Native Unix code should use readdir rather than readdir_r

[ted at tedneward.com]

Assuming I want to build JDK 8/9/10/11 (for research and spelunking purposes), what's the best way to do that if the changes aren't going to be backported? Turn off the warnings-as-errors (and what's the best way to do that), or somehow downgrade glibc (on my Ubuntu 18 image)? I could use advice/assistance on either approach.

Ted Neward
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-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> 
Sent: Sunday, August 5, 2018 11:08 AM
To: ted at tedneward.com; 'Pengfei Li' <Pengfei.Li at arm.com>; kim.barrett at oracle.com; bsrbnd at gmail.com
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Subject: Re: 8202794: Native Unix code should use readdir rather than readdir_r

On 03/08/2018 20:26, ted at tedneward.com wrote:
> Hey, all; did this get resolved? I'm still getting this error in 
> pulled-yesterday clones of jdk8u and jdk9 and jdk10. I would prefer 
> not to make local changes (mostly I want to build debug builds so I 
> can spelunk the JVM bits), but if this isn't going to roll out fairly 
> shortly I'll disable warnings-as-errors and carry on.
>
The changes for JDK-8202353, JDK-8202794, and JDK-8207340 are in jdk/jdk for JDK 12. There are few residual issues/inconsistencies that came up and are still under discussion on the mailing lists. I don't think there has been any discussion yet about back porting.

-Alan