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Jason Lowe commented on HADOOP-9912:
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+1 for a Friday webex.
The main issue with listStatus not following symlinks is that all directory
walkers written for FileSystem must make the change suggested for Pig above.
It's not just a Pig issue, it's an issue for any code written for FileSystem
that expects to walk a directory tree. listStatus is not just readdir, it's
readdir *and* stat. It's the stat that's messing things up, because it's
acting like an lstat when most code is expecting stat.
> 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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