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Hairong Kuang updated HADOOP-1386: ---------------------------------- Attachment: path.patch This patch disallows the construction of a Path from an empty string. Instead, one has to explicitly specify "." to represent the current directory. > The constructor of Path should not take an empty string as a parameter > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1386 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1386 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: dfs > Affects Versions: 0.12.3 > Reporter: Hairong Kuang > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: path.patch > > > DFSShell should pass a user's home directory instead of an empty string for > any operations on a user's home directory. > This bug caused an accidental deletion of a user's directory with valuable > data on our dfs cluster. Therefore, I marke it as a blocker to release 0.13 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.