MAPREDUCE-2073. TestTrackerDistributedCacheManager should be up-front about requirements on build environment. Contributed by Todd Lipcon.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/mapreduce/trunk@1033720 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 0cb361d..54fa676 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -161,6 +161,9 @@
     MAPREDUCE-1592. Generate Eclipse's .classpath file from Ivy config. 
     (tomwhite via nigel)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-2073. TestTrackerDistributedCacheManager should be up-front
+    about requirements on build environment. (Todd Lipcon via tomwhite)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     MAPREDUCE-1354. Enhancements to JobTracker for better performance and
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TrackerDistributedCacheManager.java b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TrackerDistributedCacheManager.java
index c529112..ae8cf31 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TrackerDistributedCacheManager.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TrackerDistributedCacheManager.java
@@ -359,7 +359,17 @@
     if (!checkPermissionOfOther(fs, current, FsAction.READ)) {
       return false;
     }
-    current = current.getParent();
+    return ancestorsHaveExecutePermissions(fs, current.getParent());
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns true if all ancestors of the specified path have the 'execute'
+   * permission set for all users (i.e. that other users can traverse
+   * the directory heirarchy to the given path)
+   */
+  static boolean ancestorsHaveExecutePermissions(FileSystem fs, Path path)
+    throws IOException {
+    Path current = path;
     while (current != null) {
       //the subdirs in the path should have execute permissions for others
       if (!checkPermissionOfOther(fs, current, FsAction.EXECUTE)) {
@@ -369,6 +379,7 @@
     }
     return true;
   }
+
   /**
    * Checks for a given path whether the Other permissions on it 
    * imply the permission in the passed FsAction
diff --git a/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TestTrackerDistributedCacheManager.java b/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TestTrackerDistributedCacheManager.java
index 1686660..6fa540e 100644
--- a/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TestTrackerDistributedCacheManager.java
+++ b/src/test/mapred/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/filecache/TestTrackerDistributedCacheManager.java
@@ -87,6 +87,19 @@
       TEST_ROOT.mkdirs();
     }
 
+    conf = new Configuration();
+    conf.set(FileSystem.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY, "file:///");
+    fs = FileSystem.get(conf);
+
+    // This test suite will fail if any ancestor directory of the
+    // test directory is not world-searchable (ie +x).
+    // We prefer to fail the test in an obvious manner up front
+    // during setUp() rather than in a subtle way later.
+    assertTrue("Test root directory " + TEST_ROOT + " and all of its " +
+               "parent directories must have a+x permissions",
+               TrackerDistributedCacheManager.ancestorsHaveExecutePermissions(
+                 fs, new Path(TEST_ROOT.toString())));
+
     // Prepare the tests' mapred-local-dir
     ROOT_MAPRED_LOCAL_DIR = new File(TEST_ROOT_DIR, "mapred/local");
     ROOT_MAPRED_LOCAL_DIR.mkdirs();
@@ -98,10 +111,7 @@
       localDir.mkdir();
     }
 
-    conf = new Configuration();
     conf.setStrings(MRConfig.LOCAL_DIR, localDirs);
-    conf.set(FileSystem.FS_DEFAULT_NAME_KEY, "file:///");
-    fs = FileSystem.get(conf);
     Class<? extends TaskController> taskControllerClass = conf.getClass(
         TTConfig.TT_TASK_CONTROLLER, DefaultTaskController.class,
         TaskController.class);