From feb6685359f8d8f9b056f0bebacac0a4a1b24fc6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Krishnan Parthasarathi <krisis@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2016 10:26:16 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] posix: Use preparePath only for paths used with syscall or os
 functions (#3377)

---
 cmd/object-api-putobject_test.go | 4 ----
 cmd/posix.go                     | 2 +-
 cmd/test-utils_test.go           | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cmd/object-api-putobject_test.go b/cmd/object-api-putobject_test.go
index 0657173b8..45c6fb516 100644
--- a/cmd/object-api-putobject_test.go
+++ b/cmd/object-api-putobject_test.go
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import (
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path"
-	"runtime"
 	"testing"
 
 	humanize "github.com/dustin/go-humanize"
@@ -329,9 +328,6 @@ func testObjectAPIPutObjectStaleFiles(obj ObjectLayer, instanceType string, disk
 
 // Wrapper for calling Multipart PutObject tests for both XL multiple disks and single node setup.
 func TestObjectAPIMultipartPutObjectStaleFiles(t *testing.T) {
-	if runtime.GOOS == "windows" {
-		return
-	}
 	ExecObjectLayerStaleFilesTest(t, testObjectAPIMultipartPutObjectStaleFiles)
 }
 
diff --git a/cmd/posix.go b/cmd/posix.go
index 9af59f5d0..83673c465 100644
--- a/cmd/posix.go
+++ b/cmd/posix.go
@@ -957,7 +957,7 @@ func (s *posix) RenameFile(srcVolume, srcPath, dstVolume, dstPath string) (err e
 	}
 
 	// Remove parent dir of the source file if empty
-	if parentDir := slashpath.Dir(preparePath(srcFilePath)); isDirEmpty(parentDir) {
+	if parentDir := slashpath.Dir(srcFilePath); isDirEmpty(parentDir) {
 		deleteFile(srcVolumeDir, parentDir)
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/test-utils_test.go b/cmd/test-utils_test.go
index e888c66cc..962a10a1f 100644
--- a/cmd/test-utils_test.go
+++ b/cmd/test-utils_test.go
@@ -1921,6 +1921,12 @@ type objTestStaleFilesType func(obj ObjectLayer, instanceType string, dirs []str
 // ExecObjectLayerStaleFilesTest - executes object layer tests those leaves stale
 // files/directories under .minio/tmp.  Creates XL ObjectLayer instance and runs test for XL layer.
 func ExecObjectLayerStaleFilesTest(t *testing.T, objTest objTestStaleFilesType) {
+	configPath, err := newTestConfig("us-east-1")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal("Failed to create config directory", err)
+	}
+	defer removeAll(configPath)
+
 	nDisks := 16
 	erasureDisks, err := getRandomDisks(nDisks)
 	if err != nil {