Attached patch (contains unit test to simulate the case) where it resolves the path relative to the workingDir. Please review the scenario and the patch fixing the same. Thanks!

+1 overall. Here are the results of testing the latest attachment
http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12725306/HDFS-8142-001.patch
against trunk revision b46ee1e.

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

+1 tests included. The patch appears to include 1 new or modified test files.

+1 javac. The applied patch does not increase the total number of javac compiler warnings.

+1 javadoc. There were no new javadoc warning messages.

+1 eclipse:eclipse. The patch built with eclipse:eclipse.

+1 findbugs. The patch does not introduce any new Findbugs (version 2.0.3) warnings.

+1 release audit. The applied patch does not increase the total number of release audit warnings.

+1 core tests. The patch passed unit tests in hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs.

Test results: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/10276//testReport/
Console output: https://builds.apache.org/job/PreCommit-HDFS-Build/10276//console

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LGTM, good find. Thanks Rakesh, will commit shortly.

Committed to trunk and branch-2, thanks again Rakesh!

FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-trunk-Commit #7596 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-trunk-Commit/7596/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

Thanks a lot Andrew Wang for reviewing and committing the patch. Also, thanks Charles Lamb for the offline discussions.

FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-Yarn-trunk-Java8 #166 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Yarn-trunk-Java8/166/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-Yarn-trunk #900 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Yarn-trunk/900/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java

FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-Hdfs-trunk #2098 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Hdfs-trunk/2098/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-Hdfs-trunk-Java8 #157 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Hdfs-trunk-Java8/157/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java

FAILURE: Integrated in Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk-Java8 #167 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk-Java8/167/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

SUCCESS: Integrated in Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk #2116 (See https://builds.apache.org/job/Hadoop-Mapreduce-trunk/2116/)
HDFS-8142. DistributedFileSystem encryption zone commands should resolve relative paths. Contributed by Rakesh R. (wang: rev 2e8ea780a45c0eccb8f106b2bf072b59446a1cc4)

• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DistributedFileSystem.java
• hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/TestEncryptionZones.java