[HADOOP-8763] Set group owner on Windows failed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1-win
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Chuan Liu
• Reporter: Chuan Liu
• Created: 04/Sep/12 18:37
• Updated: 02/May/13 02:29
• Resolved: 19/Oct/12 23:41

Description

RawLocalFileSystem.setOwner() method may incorrectly set the group owner of a file on Windows.

Specifically the following function in RawLocalFileSystem class will fail on Windows when username is null, i.e. only set group ownership.

public void setOwner(Path p, String username, String groupname)

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: HADOOP-8564 Port and extend Hadoop native libraries for Windows to address datanode concurrent reading and writing issue
• is part of: HADOOP-8645 Stabilize branch-1-win