[MAPREDUCE-869] Documentation for config to set map/reduce task environment

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.21.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.22.0
• Component/s: documentation, task
• Labels: newbie
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
• Reporter: Arun Murthy
• Created: 14/Aug/09 08:04
• Updated: 12/Dec/11 06:18
• Resolved: 12/May/11 00:33

Description

HADOOP-2838 added mapred.child.env to allow users to set the map/reduce tasks' environment.

MAPREDUCE-478 will break that into mapred.map.child.env and mapred.reduce.child.env. We need to add documentation (forrest) for these knobs.