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Ivan Mitic commented on HADOOP-9043:
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Thanks Chris for addressing the comments.
bq. Could you elaborate on this? There are 2 call sites for this method, and
they both need to convert the result to string, which is why I kept the method
returning string.
I just meant to have the method explicitly return a File instead of a String.
This way you can remove the Windows specific comment in code and everything
implicitly works.
> winutils can create unusable symlinks
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>
> 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.3.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.
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