[PIG-4546] PIG_OPTS doesn't support argument with spaces (enclosed within quotes)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: tools
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: vishnu gajendran
• Created: 12/May/15 16:53
• Updated: 12/May/15 16:53

Description

I am trying to pass PIG_OPTS="-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=\"kill -9 %p\"" argument to pig-script. I am getting the following error:

Unrecognized option: -9
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Using set -x in hadoop script, I found that PIG_OPTS argument passed to pig-script (which calls the hadoop script) is not passed in correctly (see below on how kill command is split on spaces):

/usr/java/latest/bin/java -Xmx1000m '-XX:OnOutOfMemoryError="kill' -9 '%p"' -Dpig.log.dir=/home/hadoop/pig/logs -Dpig.log.file=pig.log -Dpig.home.dir=/home/hadoop/pig -server -Dhadoop.log.dir=/home/hadoop/logs -Dhadoop.log.file=hadoop.log -Dhadoop.home.dir=/home/hadoop -Dhadoop.id.str= -Dhadoop.root.logger=INFO,console -Djava.library.path=/home/hadoop/lib/native -Dhadoop.policy.file=hadoop-policy.xml -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -Dhadoop.security.logger=INFO,NullAppender -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=30 org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar /home/hadoop/pig/pig-0.12.0-withouthadoop.jar