[HDFS-5026] getFileStatus and getFileLinkStatus do not properly handle intermediate symlinks in a path

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0-beta, 3.0.0-alpha1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Andrew Wang
• Created: 23/Jul/13 23:53
• Updated: 12/May/16 18:14
• Resolved: 24/Jul/13 02:46

Description

Imagine a filesystem with the following:

/dir
/dir/file
/dirLink -> /dir

When calling getFileStatus or getFileLinkStatus on /dirLink/file, the returned FileStatus incorrectly has the resolved path of /dir/file. This differs from expectations and the Unix stat(1) command, which would return /dirLink/file.