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Jakob Homan commented on HADOOP-6796:
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+1 on revert.  Writables are dangerous, we'll just have to live with them.

> FileStatus allows null srcPath but crashes if that's done
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-6796
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6796
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: fs
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0
>            Reporter: Rodrigo Schmidt
>            Assignee: Rodrigo Schmidt
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 0.22.0
>
>         Attachments: HADOOP-6796.1.patch, HADOOP-6796.2.patch, HADOOP-6796.3.patch, HADOOP-6796.patch
>
>
> FileStatus allows constructor invocation with a null srcPath but many methods like write, readFields, compareTo, equals, and hashCode depend on this property.

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