On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 11:24:49 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaes...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> We have a couple of calls to getpwuid_r  in the codebase, like 
> g= getpwuid_r(getuid(), &resbuf, pwd_buf, sizeof(pwd_buf), &pwd);
> 
> Usually we NULL-check pwd after the call because we do not fully trust the 
> return code of the function (it is documented in the codebase why we do not 
> fully trust the return code) . However we miss to initialize pwd at some 
> places before the call, which might we a little problematic and should be 
> improved   (at other places we already initialize it).
> 
> This triggers also Sonar warnings like :
> https://sonarcloud.io/project/issues?id=jdk&open=AXaE0dsA8L9hkQskGEbA&resolved=false&types=BUG
> 
> 
> Aside from this issue ,  should we in other issue ,  unify the OS versions of 
>  static char* get_user_name(uid_t uid)    in posix code (currently we have it 
> for bsd, linux, aix  but the functions look very similar ?

Hi Matthias,
These changes look good, but could you hold off on making these changes until 
pull request https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/2037, which consolidates the 
perfMemory_{aix,bsd,linux].cpp files into one perfMemory_posix.cpp file, has 
been integrated?
Thanks, Harold

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2098

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