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Rick Cox updated HADOOP-2057:
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> streaming should optionally treat a non-zero exit status of a child process
> as a failed task
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> Key: HADOOP-2057
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2057
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: contrib/streaming
> Affects Versions: 0.14.0, 0.14.1, 0.14.2, 0.14.3, 0.15.0
> Reporter: Rick Cox
> Fix For: 0.16.0
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> Attachments: exit-status-2057-0.16.patch
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> 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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