RFR: 8202353: os::readdir should use readdir instead of readdir_r

[Kim Barrett]

> On Jul 12, 2018, at 7:48 PM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
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> On 7/11/18 3:06 PM, Kim Barrett wrote:
>>> On Jul 11, 2018, at 2:31 PM, coleen.phillimore at oracle.com wrote:
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>>> This looks very nice but one question:
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>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kbarrett/8202353/open.00/src/hotspot/os/linux/os_linux.cpp.udiff.html
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>>> + while (result && (ptr = readdir(dir)) != NULL) {
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>>> What deallocates the dirent* memory?
>> That memory belongs to the DIR* dir, and is reclaimed by the closdir(dir) at the end of the function.
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> Great.  Looks good to me.
> thanks,
> Coleen

Thanks.