Github user rxin commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/914#discussion_r13259381 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/deploy/SparkSubmitArguments.scala --- @@ -381,16 +381,19 @@ private[spark] class SparkSubmitArguments(args: Seq[String]) { object SparkSubmitArguments { /** Load properties present in the given file. */ def getPropertiesFromFile(file: File): Seq[(String, String)] = { - require(file.exists(), s"Properties file ${file.getName} does not exist") + require(file.exists(), s"Properties file $file does not exist") + require(file.isFile(), s"Properties file $file is not a normal file") --- End diff -- does symlink work here?
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