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Allen Wittenauer resolved HADOOP-3839.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
With Microsoft's help, Hadoop now uses batch files on Windows. Won't fix!
> hadoop should handle no cygwin on windows more gracefully
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> Key: HADOOP-3839
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3839
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Environment: Windows XP, cygwin not installed
> Reporter: Steve Loughran
> Priority: Minor
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> There have been a couple of postings to hadoop core-user in which people
> can't get hdfs to come up on windows because whoami isnt on the path, which
> fails with an IOException error code 2.
> To people not experienced in DOS error codes, this is a fairly meanless
> number which invariably leads to time wasted and support emails.
> 1. the error could be caught and handled by printing some better hints (point
> to a wiki page?)
> 2. is whoami really needed on DOS-based filesystems?
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