Github user StephanEwen commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/852#issuecomment-114043900
+1
I would go as far as to remove it, as this will work in a very limited way
and requires direct client to TaskManager communication.
`DataSet.collect()` should fully subsume this.
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