Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/186#issuecomment-38338380
I'd definitely go with just killing the SparkContext for now. We can still
cancel the jobs to have them throw a SparkException in the appropriate thread.
It's better behavior than what we have today.
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