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Andrew Wang commented on HADOOP-9912:
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I don't mind Daryn's proposal of a {{resolveLink}} flag defaulting to true for
{{globStatus}} and {{listStatus}}. It's a little gross since (as Eli noted)
Hadoop 2 GA APIs should all be symlink-aware by default (and we should be
allowed to break compat here), but compatibility is compatibility.
However, I don't want the {{isSymlink}} bit being set for a resolved
{{FileStatus}}, since isSymlink/isDir/isFile should be exclusive properties.
There isn't much you can do with the knowledge a FileStatus was reached through
a symlink. Symlink-aware clients will just use {{resolveLink=false}} and walk
it properly themselves.
> globStatus of a symlink to a directory does not report symlink as a directory
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> Key: HADOOP-9912
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9912
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 2.3.0
> Reporter: Jason Lowe
> Priority: Blocker
> Attachments: HADOOP-9912-testcase.patch
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> globStatus for a path that is a symlink to a directory used to report the
> resulting FileStatus as a directory but recently this has changed.
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