Github user mateiz commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2966#issuecomment-60690678
IMO we should keep this because it will be needed for other shuffle
managers that launch threads. Because this is a developer API (where other
people may plug in their own shuffle managers), we can't add it back later
without breaking their code.
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