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Allen Wittenauer commented on HADOOP-4998:
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FWIW, we have already seen a condition where the secondary name node required 
more memory to operate than the primary name node to do a shell out due to a 
requirement to run whoami or id or whatever due to DFSClient being in the code 
path. (As it was explained to me and/or as I understood it).  From an ops 
perspective, this is highly suspect.... ;)

> Implement a native OS runtime for Hadoop
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4998
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4998
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: native
>            Reporter: Arun C Murthy
>            Assignee: Arun C Murthy
>             Fix For: 0.21.0
>
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> It would be useful to implement a JNI-based runtime for Hadoop to get access 
> to the native OS runtime. This would allow us to stop relying on exec'ing 
> bash to get access to information such as user-groups, process limits etc. 
> and for features such as chown/chgrp (org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell).

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