Github user srowen commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1253#issuecomment-49542435 -D feels more natural indeed; I would expect those args to be passed through to the JVM as-is. Because that's a way to set these env properties too right? In fact, wouldn't it be nicer to just let any -D arg through?
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