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Bikas Saha commented on HADOOP-8847:
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The true argument at the end is for recursive descent. So everything gets
chmod'd.
> Change untar to use Java API instead of spawning tar process
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> Key: HADOOP-8847
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8847
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Bikas Saha
> Assignee: Bikas Saha
> Attachments: HADOOP-8847.branch-1-win.1.patch, test-untar.tar,
> test-untar.tgz
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> Currently FileUtil.unTar() spawns tar utility to do the work. Tar may not be
> present on all platforms by default eg. Windows. So changing this to use JAVA
> API's would help make it more cross-platform. FileUtil.unZip() uses the same
> approach.
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