On Dec 13, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The shell scripts are also undertested and only intermittently maintained
> —there's been recent work there in HADOOP-9902(?) which is a great
> improvement to trunk. If you can help test the CLI on your OS, that will
> save you support calls.
That reminds me to file a JIRA for this…
AFAIK, there is only one thing that I’ve found breaks on modern-ish
Solaris/Illumos: xargs -P in the ssh handler. It’s a GNU-extension that I
mistakenly thought was POSIX. It’s trivially to use the OS check bits to use a
non-parallel version of it. But realistically, users should just install pdsh
instead. (even if they have a working xargs…)
It’s been a while since I’ve run all of the shell bits on my Illumos
box, so other stuff may have snuck in since then.
