Use of non-portable mknod utility causes build problems on Mac OS X
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Key: SQOOP-339
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SQOOP-339
Project: Sqoop
Issue Type: Bug
Affects Versions: 1.3.0, 1.4.0
Reporter: Joseph Boyd
Assignee: Joey Echeverria
Priority: Minor
Duplicating this issue from SQOOP-175, which is in the cloudera JIRA
>From SQOOP-175's description by Ken Krugler :
On Mac OS X 10.6.3, the TestNamedFifo.testNamedFifo() test fails. The error is
caused by the Shell.execCommand() use of mknod, since (at least on my Mac)
mknod doesn't know about the --mode=xxx parameter or the -p parameters.
Based on
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4546356/is-mknod-portable-if-not-what-is-the-alternative,
I switched the code to use mkfifo and it now passes all tests.
The change to NamedFifo.create() is trivial:
Shell.execCommand("mkfifo", "-m", "0" + modeStr, filename);
But I have no way of trying this out on other OSes, so it might create a
different compatibility issue.
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