Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@minotaur.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@minotaur.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 611D8D181 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2013 00:26:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 53063 invoked by uid 500); 7 Mar 2013 00:26:13 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-common-issues-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 53030 invoked by uid 500); 7 Mar 2013 00:26:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact common-issues-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 53021 invoked by uid 99); 7 Mar 2013 00:26:13 -0000 Received: from arcas.apache.org (HELO arcas.apache.org) (140.211.11.28) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:26:13 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 00:26:12 +0000 (UTC) From: "Arpit Agarwal (JIRA)" To: common-issues@hadoop.apache.org Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Subject: [jira] [Commented] (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 [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9043?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13595345#comment-13595345 ] Arpit Agarwal commented on HADOOP-9043: --------------------------------------- Forward paths in the source already appear to be rejected. Do you see otherwise? Looking into the test case. > 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: 3.0.0, 1-win > Reporter: Chris Nauroth > Assignee: Arpit Agarwal > Fix For: 3.0.0, 1-win > > Attachments: HADOOP-9043.branch-1.2.patch, HADOOP-9043.branch-1-win.patch, HADOOP-9043.trunk.2.patch, HADOOP-9043.trunk.patch > > > 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