Hi Paul, On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:08am, Paul Tomblin wrote:
Does anybody know if Hadoop still does a fork to run whoami?
Yes, I believe it still uses System.exec() to run the whoami command, which in turn forks the current JVM process.
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