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Robert Joseph Evans commented on HADOOP-8845:
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I would argue that even if there is a specific need for non-standard globbing
we don't want to support it. POSIX compliance is what most people would expect
from HDFS, when we deviate from it users will get confused and angry.
Especially if rm deletes more files then they want.
> When looking for parent paths info, globStatus must filter out non-directory
> elements to avoid an AccessControlException
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> Key: HADOOP-8845
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8845
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: fs
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha
> Reporter: Harsh J
> Assignee: Harsh J
> Labels: glob
> Attachments: HADOOP-8845.patch, HADOOP-8845.patch, HADOOP-8845.patch
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>
> A brief description from my colleague Stephen Fritz who helped discover it:
> {code}
> [root@node1 ~]# su - hdfs
> -bash-4.1$ echo "My Test String">testfile <-- just a text file, for testing
> below
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -mkdir /tmp/testdir <-- create a directory
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -mkdir /tmp/testdir/1 <-- create a subdirectory
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -put testfile /tmp/testdir/1/testfile <-- put the test
> file in the subdirectory
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -put testfile /tmp/testdir/testfile <-- put the test
> file in the directory
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -lsr /tmp/testdir
> drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hadoop 0 2012-09-25 06:52 /tmp/testdir/1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs hadoop 15 2012-09-25 06:52 /tmp/testdir/1/testfile
> -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs hadoop 15 2012-09-25 06:52 /tmp/testdir/testfile
> All files are where we expect them...OK, let's try reading
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -cat /tmp/testdir/testfile
> My Test String <-- success!
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -cat /tmp/testdir/1/testfile
> My Test String <-- success!
> -bash-4.1$ hadoop dfs -cat /tmp/testdir/*/testfile
> My Test String <-- success!
> Note that we used an '*' in the cat command, and it correctly found the
> subdirectory '/tmp/testdir/1', and ignore the regular file
> '/tmp/testdir/testfile'
> -bash-4.1$ exit
> logout
> [root@node1 ~]# su - testuser <-- lets try it as a different user:
> [testuser@node1 ~]$ hadoop dfs -lsr /tmp/testdir
> drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hadoop 0 2012-09-25 06:52 /tmp/testdir/1
> -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs hadoop 15 2012-09-25 06:52 /tmp/testdir/1/testfile
> -rw-r--r-- 3 hdfs hadoop 15 2012-09-25 06:52 /tmp/testdir/testfile
> [testuser@node1 ~]$ hadoop dfs -cat /tmp/testdir/testfile
> My Test String <-- good
> [testuser@node1 ~]$ hadoop dfs -cat /tmp/testdir/1/testfile
> My Test String <-- so far so good
> [testuser@node1 ~]$ hadoop dfs -cat /tmp/testdir/*/testfile
> cat: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied:
> user=testuser, access=EXECUTE,
> inode="/tmp/testdir/testfile":hdfs:hadoop:-rw-r--r--
> {code}
> Essentially, we hit a ACE with access=EXECUTE on file /tmp/testdir/testfile
> cause we tried to access the /tmp/testdir/testfile/testfile as a path. This
> shouldn't happen, as the testfile is a file and not a path parent to be
> looked up upon.
> {code}
> 2012-09-25 07:24:27,406 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server
> handler 2 on 8020, call getFileInfo(/tmp/testdir/testfile/testfile)
> {code}
> Surprisingly the superuser avoids hitting into the error, as a result of
> bypassing permissions, but that can be looked up on another JIRA - if it is
> fine to let it be like that or not.
> This JIRA targets a client-sided fix to not cause such /path/file/dir or
> /path/file/file kinda lookups.
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