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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-9590:
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This was recently discussed in common-dev, but I don't remember the outcome.
> Move to JDK7 improved APIs for file operations when available
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> Key: HADOOP-9590
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9590
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ivan Mitic
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> JDK6 does not have a complete support for local file system file operations.
> Specifically:
> - There is no symlink/hardlink APIs what forced Hadoop to defer to shell
> based tooling
> - No error information returned when File#mkdir/mkdirs or File#renameTo
> fails, making it unnecessary hard to troubleshoot some issues
> - File#canRead/canWrite/canExecute do not perform any access checks on
> Windows making APIs inconsistent with the Unix behavior
> - File#setReadable/setWritable/setExecutable do not change access rights on
> Windows making APIs inconsistent with the Unix behavior
> - File#length does not work as expected on symlinks on Windows
> - File#renameTo does not work as expected on symlinks on Windows
> All above resulted in Hadoop community having to fill in the gaps by
> providing equivalent native implementations or applying workarounds.
> JDK7 addressed (as far as I know) all (or most) of the above problems, either
> thru the newly introduced
> [Files|http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/nio/file/Files.html]
> class or thru bug fixes.
> This is a tracking Jira to revisit above mediations once JDK7 becomes the
> supported platform by the Hadoop community. This work would allow significant
> portion of the native platform-dependent code to be replaced with Java
> equivalents what is goodness w.r.t. Hadoop cross-platform support.
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