Holger Stenzhorn wrote:
I am using Hadoop under Cygwin with the default settings.
So hence the "hadoop.tmp.dir" is set to "/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}" via
the "hadoop-default.xml".
Now when I start using Hadoop it creates a directory
"c:\tmp\hadoop-holste" (as "holste" is my user name obviously).
But shouldn't Hadoop rather create the directory "hadoop-holste" in the
Cygwin "tmp" directory?
The Cygwin /tmp directory, as with the cygwin /usr, and /etc, are only
visible to Cygwin applications, like the shell and other C applications
compiled against the Cygwin library. Java is not a Cygwin application,
so paths in Java are always relative to the Windows filesystem, not to
the synthetic paths that Cygwin uses.
Doug
