filenames with ':' colon throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

File names containing colon ":" throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException while LINUX file system supports it.

$ hadoop dfs -put ./testfile-2007-09-24-03:00:00.gz filenametest
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute
URI: testfile-2007-09-24-03:00:00.gz
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:140)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:126)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:50)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.checkDest(FileUtil.java:273)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:117)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.copyFromLocalFile(FileSystem.java:776)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.copyFromLocalFile(FileSystem.java:757)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.copyFromLocal(FsShell.java:116)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.run(FsShell.java:1229)
at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolBase.doMain(ToolBase.java:187)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FsShell.main(FsShell.java:1342)
Caused by: java.net.URISyntaxException: Relative path in absolute URI: testfile-2007-09-24-03:00:00.gz
at java.net.URI.checkPath(URI.java:1787)
at java.net.URI.<init>(URI.java:735)
at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:137)
... 10 more

Path(String pathString) when given a filename which contains ':' treats it as URI and selects anything before ':' as
scheme, which in this case is clearly not a valid scheme.