Github user xndai commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/134#discussion_r138019713 --- Diff: c++/include/orc/OrcFile.hh --- @@ -103,12 +103,18 @@ namespace orc { }; /** - * Create a stream to a local file. + * Create a stream to a local file or HDFS file if path begins with "hdfs://" --- End diff -- why do you want readLocalFile() to handle hdfs files? You already have readHdfsFile() which does exactly that.
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