FSShell put or CopyFromLocal incorrectly treats "."

• Key: HADOOP-1916
• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Chris Douglas
• Reporter: Konstantin Shvachko
• Component/s: fs
• Affects Version/s: 0.14.1

Description

The following dfs shell command

bin/hadoop dfs -put README.txt .

results in creating a file /user/<user name> with the contents of README.txt.
A correct behavior would be creating a directory and a file in it: /user/<user name>/README.txt
The put command works correctly if /user/<user name> already exists.
So the following sequence of command leads to the desired result:

bin/hadoop dfs -mkdir .
bin/hadoop dfs -put README.txt .

Comments

[Hadoop QA]

-1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12366499/1916.patch
against trunk revision r579005.

@author +1. The patch does not contain any @author tags.

javadoc +1. The javadoc tool did not generate any warning messages.

javac +1. The applied patch does not generate any new compiler warnings.

findbugs +1. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs warnings.

core tests +1. The patch passed core unit tests.

contrib tests -1. The patch failed contrib unit tests.

Test results: http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/821/testReport/
Findbugs warnings: http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/821/artifact/trunk/build/test/findbugs/newPatchFindbugsWarnings.html
Checkstyle results: http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch/821/artifact/trunk/build/test/checkstyle-errors.html
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[Chris Douglas]

This is probably the wrong way to fix this.