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Daryn Sharp commented on HADOOP-9912:
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bq. The shell needs to be able to "see" symlinks, not just the files they
point to
This is why I proposed we return the resolved stat with the symlink bit set.
Symlink-aware code, like the shell's ls can call getFileLinkStatus if they need
to. Like users, the rest of the shell's commands probably won't care about
symlinks either.
Adding a flag for {{globStatus}} will fix the specific case observed by pig,
but the same issue still applies for any user code that calls {{listStatus}}.
We probably need for both to have a flag.
> 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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