Thanks folks, this helps
Balu
On 2/18/10 6:42 AM, "Steve Loughran" <ste...@apache.org> wrote:
> Tsz Wo (Nicholas), Sze wrote:
>> Oops, DistCp.main(..) calls System.exit(..) at the end. So it would also
>> terminate your Java program. It probably is not desirable. You may still
>> use similar codes as the ones in DistCp.main(..) as shown below. However,
>> they are not stable APIs.
>>
>>
>> //DistCp.main
>> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
>> JobConf job = new JobConf(DistCp.class);
>> DistCp distcp = new DistCp(job);
>> int res = ToolRunner.run(distcp, args);
>> System.exit(res);
>> }
>
> sorry, just replied saying roughly the same thing. Adding a formal API
> would be useful, as DistCP's implementation of Tool.run does assume that
> system.err is the right place to log,
>
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