Colin Patrick McCabe created HADOOP-9652: --------------------------------------------
Summary: FileContext#getFileLinkStatus does not fill in the link owner and mode Key: HADOOP-9652 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9652 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe {{FileContext#getFileLinkStatus}} does not actually get the owner and mode of the symlink, but instead uses the owner and mode of the symlink target. If the target can't be found, it fills in bogus values (the empty string and FsPermission.getDefault) for these. Symlinks have an owner distinct from who created them, and getFileLinkStatus ought to expose this. In some operating systems, symlinks can have a permission other than 0777. We ought to expose this in RawLocalFilesystem and other places, although we don't necessarily have to support this behavior in HDFS. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira