Github user sryza commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/539#issuecomment-41415868
Have you verified that it doesn't work correctly? My reading of the code
is that setting SPARK_YARN_APP_NAME causes the spark.app.name system property
to be set, which gets picked up in the SparkConf.
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