svn merge -r 640717:640718 from trunk to 0.16 branch. Fixes HADOOP-3039.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/branches/branch-0.16@640719 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

CHANGES.txt

@@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ Release 0.16.2 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-3049. Fixes a problem in MultiThreadedMapRunner to do with
     catching RuntimeExceptions. (Alejandro Abdelnur via ddas)
 
+    HADOOP-3039. Fixes a problem to do with exceptions in tasks not
+    killing jobs. (Amareshwari Sriramadasu via ddas)
+
 Release 0.16.1 - 2008-03-13
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

src/java/org/apache/hadoop/dfs/DFSClient.java

@@ -1932,6 +1932,7 @@ class DFSClient implements FSConstants {
       namenode.create(
           src, masked, clientName, overwrite, replication, blockSize);
       streamer = new DataStreamer();
+      streamer.setDaemon(true);
       streamer.start();
     }