Patrick, Thank you for taking the time to make a change!
Can you please also open a JIRA at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE describing what issue you are facing and looking to fix and how this change fixes it, also and attach a patch of your changes to it? There is ongoing work for supporting Windows platform in general at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8079 that may interest you. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Patrick Toolis <ptoo...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote: > In order for the staging directory setup code to run on Windows, I made the > following changes to the JobSubmissionFiles class: > // job submission directory is visible to group. > final public static FsPermission JOB_DIR_PERMISSION = > FsPermission.createImmutable((short) 0774); // rwxrwxr-- > //job files are world-wide readable and writable by user,owner > final public static FsPermission JOB_FILE_PERMISSION = > FsPermission.createImmutable((short) 0764); // rwxrw-r-- > > > If these changes are not incompatible with the Linux buil (i.e. if it is > acceptable to grant permissions to the group), then I will check them in to > SVN. > > regards, > > Patrick Toolis -- Harsh J