On Fri, 15 Jan 2021 13:54:15 GMT, Harold Seigel <hsei...@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

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

Hi Harold, thanks for reviewing . I will wait until your change is in .
Good to see that  you already started consolidating the perfmem code into 
posix, my question 

>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 ?

was pointing into the same direction but looks like you already started the 
effort !
Thanks, Matthias

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

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