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Andrew Schwartzmeyer commented on MESOS-5881:
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We need to confirm that you really cannot use any system API to create a broken
symlink; I was fairly certain this is possible to do on Windows (I thought I
fixed PowerShell to support it), but now I need to research it.
> Semantics of `os::symlink` differ across POSIX and Windows
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> Key: MESOS-5881
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MESOS-5881
> Project: Mesos
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: stout
> Reporter: Alex Clemmer
> Assignee: Li Li
> Labels: mesosphere, stout, windows
>
> This issue causes the following tests to fail on Windows:
> * RmdirTest.RemoveDirectoryWithNoTargetSymbolicLink
> * OsTest.Realpath
> On most POSIX implementations, it is possible to create a symlink with a
> target that does not exist. On Windows, attempting to create a symlink
> pointing to a target that does not exist will cause a runtime failure.
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