[HADOOP-2867] Add a task's cwd to it's LD_LIBRARY_PATH

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: Added task's cwd to its LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
• Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Reporter: Arun Murthy
• Created: 21/Feb/08 05:14
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:52
• Resolved: 22/May/08 04:16

Description

HADOOP-1660 added the task's cwd to it's java.library.path which means only java task's can take advantage via System.load or System.loadLibrary... we should enhance it to support Hadoop Pipes applications by adding it to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH so they can use dlopen/dlsym etc.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-2838 Add HADOOP_LIBRARY_PATH config setting so Hadoop will include external directories for jni