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According to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Permission+Inheritance+in+Hive, failure to inherit permissions should not cause queries to fail.
It looks like this was the case until HIVE-13716, which added some code to use fs.setOwner, fs.setAcl, and fs.setPermission to set permissions instead of shelling out and running -chgrp -R ....
When shelling out, the return status of each command is ignored, so if there are any failures when inheriting permissions, a warning is logged, but the query still succeeds.
However, when invoked the FileSystem API, any failures will be propagated up to the caller, and the query will fail.
This is problematic because setFulFileStatus shells out when the recursive parameter is set to true, and when it is false it invokes the FileSystem API. So the behavior is inconsistent depending on the value of recursive.
We should decide whether or not permission inheritance should fail queries or not, and then ensure the code consistently follows that decision.
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