After looking into streaming source, the answer is via environment variables. For example, mapred.task.timeout is in the mapred_task_timeout environment variable.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Rong-en Fan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using streaming with a mapper written in perl. However, an > issue is that I want to pass some arguments via command line. > In regular Java mapper, I can access JobConf in Mapper. > Is there a way to do this? > > Thanks, > Rong-En Fan >
