[HADOOP-3379] Document the "stream.non.zero.exit.status.is.failure" knob for streaming

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.17.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.0
• Component/s: documentation
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: Set default value for configuration property "stream.non.zero.exit.status.is.failure" to be "true".
• Assignee: Amareshwari Sriramadasu
• Reporter: Arun Murthy
• Created: 13/May/08 15:16
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 17:05
• Resolved: 11/Jun/08 09:19

Description

HADOOP-2057 added a useful feature: "stream.non.zero.exit.status.is.failure" to optionally treat non-zero exit code from streaming apps as fatal. We should document this on http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/streaming.html.