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

Kim Barrett kim.barrett at oracle.com
Tue Apr 24 19:17:55 UTC 2018

On Apr 23, 2018, at 3:51 AM, Michal Vala <mvala at redhat.com> wrote:

Hi, following discussion "RFR: build pragma error with gcc 4.4.7"[1], I'm posting updated patch replacing deprecated readdirr with readdir. Bug ID is JDK-8179887 [2]. webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~andrew/8179887/webrev/ I'm asking for the review and eventually sponsorship.

The change to os::readdir in os_linux.inline.hpp looks fine.

I was going to suggest that rather than changing perfMemory_linux.cpp to use os::readdir in an unusual and platform-specific way, it should instead just call ::readdir directly. However, neither of those is right, and that part of the change should not be made; see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8134540 Much nearly duplicated code for PerfMemory support

Looking a bit deeper, there might be some additional follow-on that could be done, eliminating the second argument to os::readdir. windows: unused bsd: freebsd also deprecated readdir_r, I think for similar reasons. solaris: doc is clear about thread safety issue being about sharing the DIR* aix: I haven’t looked at it, but would guess it’s similar.

In other words, don’t operate on the DIR* from multiple threads simultaneously, and just use ::readdir on non-Windows. That would all be for another RFE though.

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