[jira] [Commented] (HADOOP-8139) Path does not allow metachars to be escaped

["Suresh Srinivas (Commented) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-8139:
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Daryn, are you referring to Path#normalizePath() where "\\" is replaced by "/"?
                
> Path does not allow metachars to be escaped
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-8139
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8139
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: fs
>    Affects Versions: 0.23.0, 0.24.0
>            Reporter: Daryn Sharp
>            Priority: Blocker
>
> Path converts "\" into "/", probably for windows support?  This means it's impossible for the user to escape metachars in a path name.  Glob expansion can have deadly results.
> Here are the most egregious examples. A user accidentally creates a path like "/user/me/*/file".  Now they want to remove it.
> {noformat}"hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash '/user/me/\*'" becomes...
> "hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash /user/me/*"{noformat}
> * User/Admin: Nuked their home directory or any given directory
> {noformat}"hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash '\*'" becomes...
> "hadoop fs -rmr -skipTrash /*"{noformat}
> * User:  Deleted _everything_ they have access to on the cluster
> * Admin: *Nukes the entire cluster*
> Note: FsShell is shown for illustrative purposes, however the problem is in the Path object, not FsShell.

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