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Colin Patrick McCabe resolved HDFS-5021.
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Resolution: Duplicate
> FileSystem#delete and FileSystem#rename should operate on symlinks, not their
> targets
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> Key: HDFS-5021
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5021
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Colin Patrick McCabe
> Fix For: 2.1.0-beta
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> Currently {{FileSystem#delete}} and {{FileSystem#rename}} don't behave as
> expected on symlinks. If you have {{/a/b/c}} as a link to {{/a/b/d}}, and
> you try to delete {{/a/b/c}}, the target {{/a/b/d}} will be deleted instead.
> Not only is this contrary to POSIX (and pretty much every other filesystem
> standard) but this gives us no way to actually delete symlinks other than
> deleting the containing directory.
> Let's fix this so deleting a symlink deletes the symlink itself. It will
> just require not dereferencing the last path component. I haven't looked as
> closely into rename but I think there are similar issues there
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