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Rick Cox updated HADOOP-2057:
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    Attachment: exit-status-2057.patch

If the premise of this change is acceptable, than I'd like to request a 
code-review of this patch. 

It:
* supports the stream.non.zero.exit.is.failure job configuration setting in 
PipeMapRed
* adds a mention about that setting to the -info text in StreamJob
* adds a test case
* adds stream.non.zero.exit.is.failure to hadoop-default.xml, with a 
backwards-compatible default of false


> streaming should optionally treat a non-zero exit status of a child process 
> as a failed task
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-2057
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2057
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: contrib/streaming
>    Affects Versions: 0.14.2
>            Reporter: Rick Cox
>         Attachments: exit-status-2057.patch
>
>
> The exit status of the external processes spawned by streaming tasks is 
> currently logged, but not used to indicate success or failure of the task. 
> While this is reasonable for some UNIX tools (e.g. grep), many programs will 
> indicate failure by a non-zero exit status. (Also, even for custom programs, 
> intentionally indicating the failure of a streaming task is currently rather 
> tricky.)
> This could be supported by adding a new job-configuration setting, 
> 'stream.non.zero.exit.is.failure'. If true, a non-zero exit status of a child 
> process would throw an exception in the PipeMapRed, causing task failure. The 
> current behavior would be preserved by using a default setting of false. 
> This would allow streaming tasks to easily indicate failure, even if all 
> input has already been consumed.

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