Github user andrewor14 commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/701#issuecomment-42716087 AFAIK the latest spark-shell passes its arguments directly to spark-submit, so in that sense spark-shell inherits whatever parameters spark-submit takes in. [scala-programming-guide](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/docs/scala-programming-guide.md) discusses this very briefly. Not sure if this was what you were expecting?
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