[HDFS-16468] Define ssize_t for Windows

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: libhdfs++
• Labels: libhdfscpp pull-request-available

Environment

Windows 10

Language

C C++

• Assignee: Gautham Banasandra
• Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
• Created: 20/Feb/22 08:38
• Updated: 04/May/22 14:52
• Resolved: 04/May/22 14:52

Description

Some C/C++ files use ssize_t data type. This isn't available for Windows and we need to define an alias for this and set it to long long to make it cross platform compatible.

Issue Links

• is a child of: HADOOP-17193 Compile Hadoop on Windows natively
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #4228