john lilley created ATLAS-764:
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Summary: Please replace winutil.exe
Key: ATLAS-764
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ATLAS-764
Project: Atlas
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: john lilley
winutils.exe is an abomination and should be killed with an axe. We have
encountered issues related to winutils.exe many times on many Hadoop distros.
The most common one is being unable to find it. The second most common one is
incorrect arguments being passed to winutils.exe by the calling program.
Because it is an external program, the compiler offers no help in preventing
errors in formatting arguments. A confounding problem is that the common log
message complaining that winutils.exe was not found is often a red herring and
leads to numerous blind-alley searches for issues that are not winutils-related.
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