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Harsh J commented on HADOOP-7418: --------------------------------- Andrew, did you get a chance to take a look at why TestFcHdfsSymlink may have failed? Would you still be interested in pursuing this patch? :) > support for multiple slashes in the path separator > -------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-7418 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7418 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 0.23.0 > Environment: Linux running JDK 1.6 > Reporter: Sudharsan Sampath > Assignee: Andrew Look > Priority: Minor > Labels: newbie > Fix For: 0.24.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-7418--20110719.txt, HADOOP-7418.txt, > HADOOP-7418.txt, HDFS-1460.txt, HDFS-1460.txt > > > the parsing of the input path string to identify the uri authority conflicts > with the file system paths. For instance the following is a valid path in > both the linux file system and the hdfs. > //user/directory1//directory2. > While this works perfectly fine in the command line for manipulating hdfs, > the same fails when specified as the input path for a mapper class with the > following expcetion. > Exception in thread "main" java.net.UnknownHostException: unknown host: user > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.<init>(Client.java:195) > as the org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path class assumes the string that follows the > '//' to be an uri authority -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira