Github user holdenk commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/217#issuecomment-38533060
So when we extend a classloader and provide the parent the loadClass
function will resolve through the parent rather than the child which is why we
avoid it for the Child case and use it in the parent case.
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