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Eli Collins reassigned HDFS-4156:
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Assignee: Eli Reisman
> Seeking to a negative position should throw an IOE
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> Key: HDFS-4156
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-4156
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 2.0.0-alpha
> Reporter: Eli Collins
> Assignee: Eli Reisman
> Labels: newbie
> Attachments: HDFS-4156-1.patch, HDFS-4156-2.patch
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> 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}
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