Github user vanzin commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/987#issuecomment-45357297 I mean you can set system properties the same way. SparkConf initializes its configuration from system properties, so my patch covers not only your case, but also others (like using a spark-defaults.conf file for spark-submit users).
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