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Ivan Mitic commented on HADOOP-8456: ------------------------------------ bq. Only suggestion would be to use getopt to process the args to simplify the logic, otherwise I think it looks good. Thanks Daryn. If I understood your comment correctly, you are referring to [GNU C lib function|http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Using-Getopt.html#Using-Getopt] which does not exist in the C runtime lib we are using on Windows :) > Support spaces in user names and group names in results returned via winutils > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8456 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8456 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: native > Affects Versions: 1-win > Reporter: Chuan Liu > Assignee: Ivan Mitic > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HADOOP-8456.branch-1-win.spaces.2.patch, > HADOOP-8456.branch-1-win.spaces.patch > > > When parsing results returned by ‘ls’, we made implicit assumption that user > and group names cannot contain spaces. On Linux, spaces are not allowed in > user names and group names. This is not the case for Windows. We need to find > a way to fix the problem for Windows. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira