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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-7174: ------------------------------------------------ Hi Uma, some tests in HDFS failed after this; see {{HDFS-1786}}. Could you fix them as well? > null is displayed in the console,if the src path is invalid while doing > copyToLocal operation from commandLine > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-7174 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7174 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: fs > Reporter: Uma Maheswara Rao G > Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.21.1, 0.22.0, 0.23.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-7174.1.patch, HADOOP-7174.patch > > > When we perform copyToLocal operations from commandLine and if src Path is > invalid > srcFS.globStatus(srcpath) will return null. So, when we find the length of > resulted value, it will *throw NullPointerException*. > Since we are handling generic exception , it will display null as the > message. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira