Github user mxm commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1235#issuecomment-146330037
The Hadoop configuration may also be set through resource files in the
classpath. IMHO throwing an exception is only acceptable when we're sure no
configuration has been loaded.
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