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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-8139:
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bq. This should be coordinated with HADOOP-8079, no?
Why? Once the decision is made to support only / based paths, HADOOP-8079 will
work also with that path format right?
Given that this is a blocker for 0.23, and can cause accidental deletion of
data, we need to fix this ASAP. I propose going with earlier solution proposed
by Daryn - substituting "\\" with "/", only if it is Windows. Given that this
is an incomplete fix, lets do this change in a new jira. We could keep this
jira open for more complete solution/testing.
> Path does not allow metachars to be escaped
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> Key: HADOOP-8139
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8139
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 0.23.0, 0.24.0
> Reporter: Daryn Sharp
> Assignee: Daryn Sharp
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: HADOOP-8139-2.patch, HADOOP-8139-3.patch,
> HADOOP-8139-4.patch, HADOOP-8139-5.patch, HADOOP-8139.patch, HADOOP-8139.patch
>
>
> Path converts "\" into "/", probably for windows support? This means it's
> impossible for the user to escape metachars in a path name. Glob expansion
> can have deadly results.
> Here are the most egregious examples. A user accidentally creates a path like
> "/user/me/*/file". Now they want to remove it.
> {noformat}"hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash '/user/me/\*'" becomes...
> "hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash /user/me/*"{noformat}
> * User/Admin: Nuked their home directory or any given directory
> {noformat}"hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash '\*'" becomes...
> "hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash /*"{noformat}
> * User: Deleted _everything_ they have access to on the cluster
> * Admin: *Nukes the entire cluster*
> Note: FsShell is shown for illustrative purposes, however the problem is in
> the Path object, not FsShell.
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