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Allen Wittenauer resolved MAPREDUCE-736. ---------------------------------------- Resolution: Incomplete Stale? > Undefined variable is treated as string. > ---------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-736 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-736 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Suman Sehgal > Priority: Minor > Attachments: hadoop_env.txt > > > This issue is related to HADOOP-2838. > For X=$X:Y : Append Y to X (which should be taken from the tasktracker) , if > we append to an undefined variable then value for undefined variable should > be displayed as blank > e.g. NEW_PATH=$NEW_PATH2:/tmp should be displayed as > ":/tmp" in child's environment > while that variable is being displayed as a string ("$NEW_PATH2:/tmp") in the > environemnt. > This is happening in case of default task-controller only. This scenario > works fine with linux task-controller. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)