Github user pwendell commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1467#issuecomment-49390495
It doesn't seem obvious to me that we should rename this. The primary
purpose here is to describe reasons why executors can fail. There is a slight
corner case here where someone does a local job execution inside of the driver,
I don't think that warrants changing it.
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