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[jira] [Resolved] (IO-319) FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory follows symbolic links.

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-319?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Gary D. Gregory resolved IO-319.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 2.4

In SVN.
                
> FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory follows symbolic links.
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-319
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-319
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.1
>            Reporter: Ravi Prakash
>            Priority: Critical
>             Fix For: 2.4
>
>         Attachments: commons-io-319.patch, commons-io-319.patch
>
>
> First of all Thanks tons Apache Commons folks for all the amazing work! :) My first JIRA. Yayyy. I contributed B-)
> A symbolic link may create a cycle and so sizeOfDirectory crashes with an IllegalArgumentException. e.g. 
> {noformat}
> $ tree test
> test
> ├── file
> └── ravi
>     ├── cycle -> ../../test
>     └── file
> {noformat}
> causes FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory to crash like so
> {noformat}
> java TestJAVA
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: <somepath>/test/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle/ravi/cycle does not exist
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOf(FileUtils.java:2053)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(FileUtils.java:2089)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOf(FileUtils.java:2057)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(FileUtils.java:2089)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOf(FileUtils.java:2057)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(FileUtils.java:2089)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOf(FileUtils.java:2057)
>         at org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.sizeOfDirectory(FileUtils.java:2089)
> {noformat}
> We faced the same issue in Hadoop :(. Checkout https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6963 for our solution

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