[HADOOP-9693] Shell should add a probe for OSX

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 03/Jul/13 11:57
• Updated: 03/Sep/14 23:33
• Resolved: 20/Aug/13 18:59

Description

the Shell class looks for Windows and Linux and sets static fields to show this. For tests, it's sometimes useful to know if a host is OS/X, as its filesystem is different. Although this is easy to test in code https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#technotes/tn2002/tn2110.html, having this in one place makes it easier to maintain if future java versions ever behave differently

Issue Links

• is part of: HADOOP-9652 Allow RawLocalFs#getFileLinkStatus to fill in the link owner and mode if requested