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Ivan Mitic updated HADOOP-8872:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
> FileSystem#length returns zero for symlinks on windows+java6
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> Key: HADOOP-8872
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8872
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1-win
> Reporter: Ivan Mitic
> Assignee: Ivan Mitic
> Attachments: HADOOP-8872.branch-1-win.symlink0.patch
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> RawLocalFileSystem does not work well with symbolic links on Windows.
> Specifically, calling FileSystem#lengh on the path that is a symlink will
> return zero. This causes problems in some objects that use LocalFileSystem to
> access local files. One example is a SequenceFile.
> The issue is caused by Java6 File#length returning zero for symbolic links on
> Windows. On Java7, we will no longer have this problem.
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