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Joep Rottinghuis commented on HADOOP-8847: ------------------------------------------ Are symlinks a factor in the pure Java implementation? On Unix, tar will handle symlinks appropriately and restore them properly (even if there are loops in the symlinks). Recursive descent with loops could be a problem. As long as Java implementation is limited to Windows this may not matter. > Change untar to use Java API instead of spawning tar process > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > > 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. -- 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