I guess im not sure what the ShutdownHook actually is there for.... Thats the real question im asking .
On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Oleg Zhurakousky < oleg.zhurakou...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, all I do is have my own shutdown hook in the main which closes the > FSDataOutputStream. Before I did that it would throw an ugly exception when > I hit Ctrl+C, telling me that the stream is already closed, because of this > shutdown hook (bad design on the hadoop part), so removing it keeps it open > until the client's shutdown hook will close it at due time. So now it shuts > down gracefully and under complete control of the client. > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Jay Vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> what is happening when you remove the shutdown hook ? is that supposed >> to trigger an exception - >> > > -- Jay Vyas http://jayunit100.blogspot.com
