From common-dev-return-80222-apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive=hadoop.apache.org@hadoop.apache.org Thu Nov 15 07:10:17 2012 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59462DEDC for ; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:10:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 73528 invoked by uid 500); 15 Nov 2012 07:10:15 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 73098 invoked by uid 500); 15 Nov 2012 07:10:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-dev-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 72854 invoked by uid 99); 15 Nov 2012 07:10:12 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:10:12 +0000 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 07:10:12 +0000 (UTC) From: "Chris Nauroth (JIRA)" To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: <290969397.117983.1352963412442.JavaMail.jiratomcat@arcas> Subject: [jira] [Created] (HADOOP-9043) winutils can create unusable symlinks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-JIRA-FingerPrint: 30527f35849b9dde25b450d4833f0394 Chris Nauroth created HADOOP-9043: ------------------------------------- Summary: winutils can create unusable symlinks Key: HADOOP-9043 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9043 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Components: util Affects Versions: 1-win, trunk-win Reporter: Chris Nauroth Assignee: Chris Nauroth In general, the winutils symlink command rejects attempts to create symlinks targeting a destination file that does not exist. However, if given a symlink destination with forward slashes pointing at a file that does exist, then it creates the symlink with the forward slashes, and then attempts to open the file through the symlink will fail. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira