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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HDFS-5228: ---------------------------------------------- Okay, let's commit the patch for the moment. We could revert the recent Symlink work later if we found more problems. For the record, I did hear some performance issues but not yet sure about the cause of them. > The RemoteIterator returned by DistributedFileSystem.listFiles(..) may throw > NPE > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-5228 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5228 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Bug > Components: hdfs-client > Affects Versions: 2.1.0-beta > Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: h5228_20130919.patch, h5228_20130919_test.patch, > HDFS-5228.2.patch > > > Get a RemoteIterator from DistributedFileSystem.listFiles(..) with a relative > path. Then, it will result a NullPointerException when calling hasNext() > from the RemoteIterator. > This bug was discovered by Arnaud: > http://hortonworks.com/community/forums/topic/new-bug-in-hdfs-listfiles-method/ -- 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