[HDFS-16251] Make hdfs_cat tool cross platform

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

Environment

Centos 7, Centos 8, Debian 10, Ubuntu Focal

• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Gautham Banasandra
• Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
• Due: 10/Oct/21
• Created: 03/Oct/21 18:22
• Updated: 15/Feb/22 03:59
• Resolved: 07/Oct/21 17:57

Description

The source files for hdfs_cat uses getopt for parsing the command line arguments. getopt is available only on Linux and thus, isn't cross platform. We need to replace getopt with boost::program_options to make this cross platform.

Issue Links

• is a child of: HADOOP-17193 Compile Hadoop on Windows natively
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3523