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Alejandro Abdelnur commented on OOZIE-1037:
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+1
                
> XTestCase.delete() can cause tests to fail if it runs into a dangling symlink
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>
>                 Key: OOZIE-1037
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OOZIE-1037
>             Project: Oozie
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: trunk
>            Reporter: Robert Kanter
>            Assignee: Robert Kanter
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: trunk
>
>         Attachments: OOZIE-1037.patch
>
>
> Java 6 doesn't handle symlinks very well; as a result, if you have a dangling 
> symlink (a symlink who's target has been deleted), Java's {{File.exists()}} 
> method returns false on the symlink file.  So, when {{XTestCase.delete()}} is 
> trying to delete a directory, it first has to empty the directory, but the 
> current implementation skips any dangling symlinks because it checks 
> {{exists()}} on each file in the directory; later it will fail when trying to 
> delete the directory itself because its not empty.  

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