OpenJDK will not produce SecureDirectoryStreams on MacOS. Support for SecureDirectoryStream on UNIX-like OSes is predicated on the `SUPPORTS_OPENAT` flag in UnixNativeDispatcher. That flag in turn is set when the runtime environment supports `openat`, `fstatat`, `unlinkat`, `renameat`, `futimesat`, and `fdopendir`.
This fails on MacOS because `futimesat` does not exist on that platform, apparently having been a proposed-but-not-accepted part of POSIX some time ago. While there is an indirect replacement that is supported on MacOS - `utimensat` - this is not actually needed, because the unique functionality provided by `futimesat` (that is, performing the action of `futimes` relative to an open directory file descriptor) is not utilized, since the only place this function is used passes `NULL` as the relative filename argument.
Replacing this with simply calling `futimes` instead allows `SecureDirectoryStream` to function on MacOS.
Additionally, we must ensure that `openat`, `fstatat`, and `fdopendir` are properly detected on MacOS x64, because there are 32- and 64-bit variations on that platform which misbehave subtly when done improperly.
This fails on MacOS because `futimesat` does not exist on that platform, apparently having been a proposed-but-not-accepted part of POSIX some time ago. While there is an indirect replacement that is supported on MacOS - `utimensat` - this is not actually needed, because the unique functionality provided by `futimesat` (that is, performing the action of `futimes` relative to an open directory file descriptor) is not utilized, since the only place this function is used passes `NULL` as the relative filename argument.
Replacing this with simply calling `futimes` instead allows `SecureDirectoryStream` to function on MacOS.
Additionally, we must ensure that `openat`, `fstatat`, and `fdopendir` are properly detected on MacOS x64, because there are 32- and 64-bit variations on that platform which misbehave subtly when done improperly.
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Commit(master) openjdk/jdk/9f6d5b46
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Review(master) openjdk/jdk/21696