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Chris Douglas updated HADOOP-3549:
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    Status: Open  (was: Patch Available)

> meaningful errno values in libhdfs
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3549
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3549
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: libhdfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.17.0
>         Environment: any POSIX
>            Reporter: Ben Slusky
>         Attachments: libhdfs-01-exception-handling.patch, 
> libhdfs-02-meaningful-errno.patch, libhdfs-03-combined.patch
>
>
> A comment near the top of hdfs.h says that "All APIs set errno to meaningful 
> values." Unfortunately this is a big fat lie -- bigger and fatter still now 
> that we have permissions in HDFS. If Hadoop throws an AccessControlException, 
> then libhdfs sets errno to EINTERNAL, even though this is not an "internal" 
> error in any sense of the word.
> With the attached patches, allow libhdfs to derive a useful errno value when 
> an exception is thrown. I've implemented handling for AccessControlException 
> and a few others whose semantics seem obvious.
> Tangential question: The signatures for invokeMethod() and 
> constructNewObjectOfClass() in hdfsJniHelper.h disagreed with their comments. 
> Was the "exc" argument of those functions removed in the past, or never 
> implemented? I (re)instated it in my patch.

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