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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-6427:
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Symbolic links should be resolved relative to their source location.  So 
hdfs://x/foo - > /bar should be interpreted as a link to hdfs://x/bar.  The 
client should generally rewrite a symlink with new Path(src, dest) before 
de-referencing it, assuming src is fully-qualified.  Should we change the 
accessor on FileStatus to do this, and perhaps add a getRawLink() method?  I 
think the primary path field of a FileStatus (src) is always absolute, no?


> Add Path isQualified
> --------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6427
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6427
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Eli Collins
>            Assignee: Eli Collins
>         Attachments: hadoop-6427-1.patch
>
>
> The Path class has a method to make a path qualified but not to query if the 
> path is qualified. This is needed for HADOOP-64221. In addition this patch 
> adds tests to TestPath that cover the file scheme. Note that "fully 
> qualified" applies to domain names not URIs so this function and it tests 
> also serve to define what we mean by a fully qualified path.

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