[HDFS-16419] Make HDFS data transfer tools 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
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Flags: Important

Language

C++

• Assignee: Gautham Banasandra
• Reporter: Gautham Banasandra
• Due: 25/Oct/21
• Created: 09/Jan/22 17:38
• Updated: 30/Jan/22 17:33
• Resolved: 12/Jan/22 14:28

Description

The source files for hdfs_copyToLocal and hdfs_moveToLocal 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 these tools cross platform.

Issue Links

• is a child of: HADOOP-17193 Compile Hadoop on Windows natively
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3873