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Arpit Agarwal commented on HADOOP-9043:
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Hi Ivan, Chris,
I think the behavior of winutils is orthogonal to what the Java code invoking
it does. If we are shipping winutils with the distribution it should do the
right thing, which is to either fail the creation of unusable symlinks or
handle the path conversion.
> winutils can create unusable symlinks
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> Key: HADOOP-9043
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9043
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: util
> Affects Versions: 1-win, trunk-win
> Reporter: Chris Nauroth
> Assignee: Arpit Agarwal
> Attachments: HADOOP-9043.branch-1-win.patch, HADOOP-9043.trunk.patch
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> In general, the winutils symlink command rejects attempts to create symlinks
> targeting a destination file that does not exist. However, if given a
> symlink destination with forward slashes pointing at a file that does exist,
> then it creates the symlink with the forward slashes, and then attempts to
> open the file through the symlink will fail.
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