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amirhyoussefi edited comment on HADOOP-3973 at 8/20/08 3:54 AM:
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Also another way of preventing changing signature of map() is to have an 
extended IOException exception, detect it in caller and if not  made for 
breaking (not made by us) re-throw IOException. This handles the case in which 
IOException is throws for other reasons.

      was (Author: amirhyoussefi):
    Also another way of preventing changing signature of map() is 

  
> Breaking out of a task
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3973
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3973
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Amir Youssefi
>
> Occasionally a mapper/reducer is done without need to see more input data. If 
> we provide a way to break out and skip reading the rest of input then job 
> finishs earlier and resources are spared.

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