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Steve Loughran updated HADOOP-10775: ------------------------------------ Attachment: HADOOP-10775-004.patch An iteration with # cleanup of the tests: no need to skip symlink tests on windows # small code review and some cleanup of Shell itself (-> SLF4J; why was the {{AtomicBoolean}} {{completed}} marked as {{volatile?}} # review of tests and switch to the exception raising {{getWinUtilsPathXXX()}} calls. # Improve {{NativeLibraryChecker}} to include text on windows as to why it couldn't be found (and don't look when not on windows) # if you try to get the path when not on windows, an exception gets raised. # explicit calls to probe for the path existing, and to ask for it as a {{File}} class. > Shell operations to fail with meaningful errors on windows if winutils.exe > not found > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-10775 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-10775 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: util > Affects Versions: trunk-win, 2.7.1 > Environment: windows > Reporter: Steve Loughran > Assignee: Steve Loughran > Priority: Minor > Attachments: HADOOP-10775-002.patch, HADOOP-10775-003.patch, > HADOOP-10775-004.patch, HADOOP-10775.patch > > > If {{winutils.exe}} can't be found {{HADOOP_HOME}} wrong/unset or other > causes, then an error is logged -but when any of the {{Shell}} operations are > used, an NPE is raised rather than something meaningful. > The error message at setup time should be preserved and then raised before > any attempt to invoke a winutils-driven process made -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)