ayushtkn commented on a change in pull request #3431: URL: https://github.com/apache/hadoop/pull/3431#discussion_r708054511
########## File path: hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileUtil.java ########## @@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ public static boolean fullyDelete(final File dir, boolean tryGrantPermissions) { return true; } // handle nonempty directory deletion - if (!fullyDeleteContents(dir, tryGrantPermissions)) { + if (!FileUtils.isSymlink(dir) && !fullyDeleteContents(dir, tryGrantPermissions)) { Review comment: Makes sense then.... -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-issues-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-issues-h...@hadoop.apache.org