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Binglin Chang commented on HADOOP-9912: --------------------------------------- Another reason for adding new API is that listLinkStatus(both for RLFS and HDFS) is really useful in many cases, like Andrew said, readdir API(linux/bsd/mac) follows the same rule, FSShell ls can list symlinks(HDFS-4019) like system ls cmd. > globStatus of a symlink to a directory does not report symlink as a directory > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-9912 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9912 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: fs > Affects Versions: 2.3.0 > Reporter: Jason Lowe > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: HADOOP-9912-testcase.patch > > > globStatus for a path that is a symlink to a directory used to report the > resulting FileStatus as a directory but recently this has changed. -- 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