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Arpit Agarwal updated HADOOP-9043: ---------------------------------- Assignee: Arpit Agarwal (was: Chris Nauroth) > 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: Arpit Agarwal > Attachments: HADOOP-9043.branch-1-win.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