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Sreekanth Ramakrishnan commented on HADOOP-6536:
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Took a look at the latest patch, the changes seem fine.
> FileUtil.fullyDelete(dir) behavior is not defined when we pass a symlink as
> the argument
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> Key: HADOOP-6536
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6536
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Reporter: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
> Assignee: Ravi Gummadi
> Fix For: 0.22.0
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> Attachments: HADOOP-6536.patch, HADOOP-6536.v1.patch
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> FileUtil.fullyDelete(dir) deletes contents of sym-linked directory when we
> pass a symlink. If this is the behavior, it should be documented as so.
> Or it should be changed not to delete the contents of the sym-linked
> directory.
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