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

[B. Blaser]

On 5 May 2018 at 22:26, Kim Barrett <kim.barrett at oracle.com> wrote:
>> On May 5, 2018, at 8:03 AM, B. Blaser <bsrbnd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 May 2018 at 17:42, 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.
>>
>> Yes sure but I cannot test it elsewhere myself... and we can easily
>> remove them once POSIX officially deprecates 'readdir_r' or if someone
>> validates the fix on other systems.
>
> I'm not sure anyone has the ability to test on all supported.  That
> doesn't (and really can't) prevent making changes across platforms to
> platform-specific code.  It just means one needs to get help with
> testing.  Make the change across platforms, test on those platforms
> one has access to, and ask here for help testing on others.

OK, I'll provide a cross-platform fix to be evaluated on other systems too.

Thanks,
Bernard

> Waiting for a POSIX change is even more like watching paint dry than
> waiting for Java releases used to be.