[MAPREDUCE-468] Let users specify -classpath for the tasks

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Koji Noguchi
• Created: 23/Oct/08 21:37
• Updated: 21/Jul/14 16:35
• Resolved: 21/Jul/14 16:35

Description

One user requested

what I am not able to solve is to add the jar file that is inside the (distributedCache) archive to the task's class path.

I believe letting users add the classpath by "mapred.child.java.opts" would be useful.
Currently, this '-classpath' is ignored due to the same problem as HADOOP-1493.