Github user prasanthj commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/218#discussion_r168572505
--- Diff: java/core/src/java/org/apache/orc/impl/ReaderImpl.java ---
@@ -516,12 +516,13 @@ OrcTail buildEmptyTail() {
protected OrcTail extractFileTail(FileSystem fs, Path path,
long maxFileLength) throws IOException {
- FSDataInputStream file = fs.open(path);
+ FSDataInputStream file = null;
ByteBuffer buffer;
OrcProto.PostScript ps;
OrcProto.FileTail.Builder fileTailBuilder =
OrcProto.FileTail.newBuilder();
long modificationTime;
try {
--- End diff --
Line 610 doesn't add much value as close() will throw IOException anyway
which should be sufficient to know the reason.
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