On Wed, 6 Sep 2023 08:18:45 GMT, JoKern65 <d...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> After push of [JDK-8307478](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8307478) , 
> the following test started to fail on AIX :
> com/sun/tools/attach/warnings/DynamicLoadWarningTest.java;
> The problem was described in 
> [JDK-8309549](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8309549) with a first try 
> of a fix.
> A second fix via [JDK-8310191](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8310191) 
> was necessary.
> Both fixes just disable the specific subtest on AIX, without correction of 
> the root cause.
> The root cause is, that dlopen() on AIX returns different handles every time, 
> even if you load a library twice. There is no official AIX API available to 
> get this information on a different way.
> My proposal is, to use the stat64x API with the fields st_device and 
> st_inode. After a dlopen() the stat64x() API is called additionally to get 
> this information which is then stored parallel to the library handle in the 
> jvmtiAgent. For AIX we then can compare these values instead of the library 
> handle and get the same functionality as on linux.

Why not having a solution for AIX anyway?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15583#issuecomment-1711701269

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