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Sanjay Radia updated HADOOP-8487: --------------------------------- Description: Many tests use a test path intended for local tests setup by build environment. In some cases the tests fails on platforms such as windows because the path contains a c: was: There is a number of tests that fail on Windows because Hadoop's distributed file system does not allow colon character in DFS paths. Specifically, passing in the following path to DFS: {code}/c:/some/path{code} would fail DFSUtil#isValidName check and cause the current operation to fail. Any test that is using local absolute path in the context of the DFS will fail because of this. Assignee: Ivan Mitic Summary: Many HDFS tests use a test path intended for local file system tests (was: Address test failures related to Windows paths not being valid DFS paths) > Many HDFS tests use a test path intended for local file system tests > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8487 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8487 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: test > Reporter: Ivan Mitic > Assignee: Ivan Mitic > Attachments: HADOOP-8487-branch-1-win(2).patch, > HADOOP-8487-branch-1-win(3).patch, HADOOP-8487-branch-1-win.alternate.patch, > HADOOP-8487-branch-1-win.patch > > > Many tests use a test path intended for local tests setup by build > environment. In some cases the tests fails on platforms such as windows > because the path contains a c: -- 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