[jira] Issue Comment Edited: (HADOOP-1891) "." is converted to an empty path

["Chris Douglas (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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chris.douglas edited comment on HADOOP-1891 at 9/25/07 11:20 AM:
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> Hmm. It does what I'd expect. "./foo" and "foo" name the same file, no? What's unexpected?

Well, "." and {{fs.getWorkingDirectory()}} aren't the same thing, as in the above example. That was surprising to me, at least. Path can keep enough information after URI normalization to know that the original was a relative path when the string is "./foo", but not when it's simply "."

Path already throws when it gets an empty string; would it be reasonable to assume that a Path successfully constructed as the empty string refers to the working directory? I can't think of a situation where reporting its URI as Path.CUR_DIR would be an error. It would also work in {{new Path("foo/bar", "../..")}}, etc.

What problem is this causing?

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We'd also see fewer bugs like HADOOP-1902

      was (Author: chris.douglas):
    > Hmm. It does what I'd expect. "./foo" and "foo" name the same file, no? What's unexpected?

Well, "." and {{fs.getWorkingDirectory()}} aren't the same thing, as in the above example. That was surprising to me, at least. Path can keep enough information after URI normalization to know that the original was a relative path when the string is "./foo", but not when it's simply "."

Path already throws when it gets an empty string; would it be reasonable to assume that a Path successfully constructed as the empty string refers to the working directory? I can't think of a situation where reporting its URI as Path.CUR_DIR would be an error. It would also work in {{new Path("foo/bar", "../..")}}, etc.

What problem is this causing?
  
> "." is converted to an empty path
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1891
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1891
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.1
>         Environment: Linux
>            Reporter: Olga Natkovich
>            Assignee: Chris Douglas
>
> Path p = new Path(".");
> System.out.println("path=(" + p.toString() +")");
>  path =()

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