Eli Collins created HDFS-4156: --------------------------------- Summary: Seeking to a negative position should throw an IOE Key: HDFS-4156 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4156 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.0.0-alpha, 1.0.0 Reporter: Eli Collins
Credit to [~vanzin] for finding this. If you seek() to a position before the start of the file, the seek() call succeeds, and the following read() call throws an NPE. A more friendly approach would be to fail the seek() call. {noformat} Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.readWithStrategy(DFSInputStream.java:670) at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSInputStream.read(DFSInputStream.java:685) at java.io.DataInputStream.read(DataInputStream.java:83) at fstest.main(fstest.java:12) {noformat} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira