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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:29:27 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Vinod K V (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-6536) FileUtil.fullyDelete(dir) behavior
 is not defined when we pass a symlink as the argument
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Vinod K V commented on HADOOP-6536:
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bq. I guess fullyDelete() should delete as many files as possible(similar to 'rm -rf').
Filed HADOOP-6631 for this.

> FileUtil.fullyDelete(dir) behavior is not defined when we pass a symlink as the argument
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6536
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6536
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: fs
>            Reporter: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>
> FileUtil.fullyDelete(dir) deletes contents of sym-linked directory when we pass a symlink. If this is the behavior, it should be documented as so. 
> Or it should be changed not to delete the contents of the sym-linked directory.

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