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Chuan Liu commented on HADOOP-9483:
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MSDN says:
{quote}
A final path is the path that is returned when a path is fully resolved. For
example, for a symbolic link named "C:\tmp\mydir" that points to "D:\yourdir",
the final path would be "D:\yourdir".
The string that is returned by this function uses the \\?\ syntax.
{quote}
So I think it will be full path prefixed with "\\?\".
> winutils support for readlink command
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>
> Key: HADOOP-9483
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9483
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: util
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Chris Nauroth
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> The current codebase relies on the Unix readlink command to determine the
> target of a symlink on the local file system. winutils currently does not
> support this functionality on Windows. Adding the command to winutils will
> prevent the need to use GnuWin32 or Cygwin for readlink support.
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