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Konstantin Shvachko commented on HADOOP-9415:
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Forgot to mention it makes sense to convert this jira to HDFS one.
> Fix NullPointerException in getLinkTarget
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> Key: HADOOP-9415
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9415
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 3.0.0
> Reporter: Andrew Wang
> Assignee: Andrew Wang
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: hadoop-9415-1.patch, hadoop-9415-2.patch
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> {{HdfsFileStatus#getLinkTarget}} can throw a NPE in {{DFSUtil#bytes2String}}
> if {{symlink}} is null. Better to instead return null and propagate this to
> the client.
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