RFR: 8179887 - Build failure with glibc >= 2.24: error: 'int readdir_r(DIR*, dirent*, dirent**)' is deprecated

[B. Blaser]

On 3 May 2018 at 21:43, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On May 3, 2018, at 1:52 PM, B. Blaser <bsrbnd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 2 May 2018 at 22:40, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> On May 2, 2018, at 5:10 AM, Michal Vala <mvala at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 05/01/2018 07:59 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>>>>> On Apr 27, 2018, at 4:26 PM, Michal Vala <mvala at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Someone to sponsor this please?
>>>>> Do you have a sponsor yet?  If not, I’ll do it.
>>>>
>>>> No, I don't. I'd really appreciate if you sponsor it.
>>>
>>> Will do.  I should be able to take care of it in the next day or so.
>>>
>>
>> I've noted some similar issues at several other places which makes the
>> JDK build fail on Linux with glibc = 2.26, see comments here:
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202353
>>
>> Here is a patch for that, does this look reasonable (tier1 seems OK)?
>
> I think we should move in the direction of eliminating the use of readdir_r entirely,
> either under JDK-8202353, or leave that as only the HotSpot part and have another
> RFE for the uses in java.base/unix/native.

I'll create a new JBS issue (unless you want to) since the fix is
mostly located in core-libs and only intended to make the build
complete.
But I'll still need someone to review and push the fix, would you be
interested in doing this?

Thanks,
Bernard