Hey Dan
There is discussion/issue on this here:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4998
ckw
On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Dan Diephouse wrote:
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Steve Loughran <[email protected]>
wrote:
Dan Diephouse wrote:
I recognize that Windows support is, um, limited :-) But, any
ideas what
exactly would need to be changed to support Windows (without
cygwin) if
someone such as myself were so motivated? The most immediate thing
I ran
into was the UserGroupInformation which would need a windows
implementation.
I see there is an issue to switch to JAAS too, which may be the
proper
fix?
Are there lots of other things that would need to be changed?
I think it may be worth opening a JIRA for windows support and
creating
some
subtasks for the various issues, even if no one tackles them quite
yet.
Thanks,
Dan
I think a key one you need to address is motiviation. Is cygwin
that bad
for a piece of server-side code?
No.... I guess I was trying to get an idea of how much work it was.
It seems
easy enough to supply a WindowsUserGroupInformation class (or a
platform
agnostic one). I wondered how many other things like this there
were before
I put together a patch. Seems bad Java practices to depend on shell
utilities :-). Not very platform agnostic...
Dan
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