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

[Kim Barrett]

> On May 4, 2018, at 11:42 AM, Alan Bateman <Alan.Bateman at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04/05/2018 16:31, B. Blaser wrote:
>> :
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
> I think someone needs to explore the behavior on other platforms too as the #ifndef __linux__ patches are ugly. Is there discussion on the original thread about this?
> 
> -Alan

Yes, see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202353