Github user tgravescs commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1180#issuecomment-49891554
Yarn doesn't necessarily tell you the type of error, or know for that
matter. Your process can crash for many different reasons. Its just a much
harder to do. This is simple and should handle most cases. Note that this is
also what MapReduce does.
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