apache/incubator-spark — pull request #320 by kayousterhout (2014-01-02 20:39:55+00:00)
Title: Remove erroneous FAILED state for killed tasks.

Currently, when tasks are killed, the Executor first sends a
status update for the task with a "KILLED" state, and then
sends a second status update with a "FAILED" state saying that
the task failed due to an exception. The second FAILED state is
misleading/unncessary, and occurs due to a NonLocalReturnControl
Exception that gets thrown due to the way we kill tasks. This
commit eliminates that problem.

I'm not at all sure that this is the best way to fix this problem,
so alternate suggestions welcome. @rxin guessing you're the right
person to look at this.