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Xuan Gong commented on YARN-2701:
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Had some off line discussion with [~jianhan]. We think that for now, reverting
the previous method changes might be the safest way to solve this issue.
Uploaded a new patch to do it
> Potential race condition in startLocalizer when using LinuxContainerExecutor
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>
> Key: YARN-2701
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-2701
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Xuan Gong
> Assignee: Xuan Gong
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: YARN-2701.1.patch, YARN-2701.2.patch, YARN-2701.3.patch,
> YARN-2701.4.patch, YARN-2701.5.patch, YARN-2701.6.patch
>
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> When using LinuxContainerExecutor do startLocalizer, we are using native code
> container-executor.c.
> {code}
> if (stat(npath, &sb) != 0) {
> if (mkdir(npath, perm) != 0) {
> {code}
> We are using check and create method to create the appDir under /usercache.
> But if there are two containers trying to do this at the same time, race
> condition may happen.
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