Motivation:
394a1b3485 introduced a hard dependency on GLIBC 2.12 which was not the case before. This had the effect of not be able to use the native epoll transports on platforms which ship with earlier versions of GLIBC.
To make things a backward compatible as possible we should not introduce such changes in a bugfix release.
Special thanks to @weissi with all the help to fix this.
Modifications:
- Use syscalls directly to remove dependency on GLIBC 2.12
- Make code consistent that needs newer GLIBC versions
- Adjust scattering read test to only run if recvmmsg syscall is supported
- Cleanup pom.xml as some stuff is not needed anymore after using syscalls.
Result:
Fixes https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/9758.
If you are on Linux, you need additional development packages installed on your system, because you'll build the native transport.
Note that this is build-time requirement. JDK 5 (for 3.x) or 6 (for 4.0+) is enough to run your Netty-based application.
Branches to look
Development of all versions takes place in each branch whose name is identical to <majorVersion>.<minorVersion>. For example, the development of 3.9 and 4.0 resides in the branch '3.9' and the branch '4.0' respectively.
Usage with JDK 9
Netty can be used in modular JDK9 applications as a collection of automatic modules. The module names follow the
reverse-DNS style, and are derived from subproject names rather than root packages due to historical reasons. They
are listed below:
io.netty.all
io.netty.buffer
io.netty.codec
io.netty.codec.dns
io.netty.codec.haproxy
io.netty.codec.http
io.netty.codec.http2
io.netty.codec.memcache
io.netty.codec.mqtt
io.netty.codec.redis
io.netty.codec.smtp
io.netty.codec.socks
io.netty.codec.stomp
io.netty.codec.xml
io.netty.common
io.netty.handler
io.netty.handler.proxy
io.netty.resolver
io.netty.resolver.dns
io.netty.transport
io.netty.transport.epoll (native omitted - reserved keyword in Java)
io.netty.transport.kqueue (native omitted - reserved keyword in Java)
io.netty.transport.unix.common (native omitted - reserved keyword in Java)
io.netty.transport.rxtx
io.netty.transport.sctp
io.netty.transport.udt
Automatic modules do not provide any means to declare dependencies, so you need to list each used module separately
in your module-info file.
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