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Chris Douglas resolved HDFS-538.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 0.21.0
     Hadoop Flags: [Incompatible change, Reviewed]

+1

I committed this. Thanks, Jakob!

> DistributedFileSystem::listStatus incorrectly returns null for empty result 
> sets
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>                 Key: HDFS-538
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-538
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Jakob Homan
>            Assignee: Jakob Homan
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
>         Attachments: HDFS-538.patch
>
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> Currently the listStatus method returns null if no files match the request.  
> This differs from the Checksum/LocalFileSystem implementation, which returns 
> an empty array, and the nontvery-explict prescription of the FileSystem 
> interface: "{...@return the statuses of the files/directories in the given 
> patch}}"  It's better to return an empty collection than have to add extra 
> null checks.  The method should return an empty array.

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