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Suresh Srinivas commented on HADOOP-8899: ----------------------------------------- Alejandro and Joep, please look at Ahmed's comments. I am +1 for this change given maven surefire. I will commit this in a day or so, if there are no further comments. Comments post that can be addressed in a separate jira. > Classpath exceeds maximum OS limit > ---------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-8899 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8899 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Affects Versions: 1-win > Reporter: Ahmed El Baz > Attachments: HADOOP-8899.branch-1-win.classpath.patch > > > We hit errors in TT due to long classpath value. One example is Oozie trying > to start a hive job, and it fails with the following error: > java.io.IOException: Command exceeds the OS command length limit: 8192, > command: "set CLASSPATH="…. > The classpath includes Hadoop Core + Hive Jars which are in the distributed > cache. This is causing the classpath to be too long giving the error above. A > viable long term fix is to generate a temporary JAR file in the task cache > directory which includes all elements in the long classpath, and then provide > this as the "-classpath" argument for the JVM to be spawned. This is gated > for Windows only. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira