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package org.apache.hadoop.util;
/**
* A facility for reporting progress.
*
* <p>Clients and/or applications can use the provided <code>Progressable</code>
* to explicitly report progress to the Hadoop framework. This is especially
* important for operations which take an insignificant amount of time since,
* in-lieu of the reported progress, the framework has to assume that an error
* has occured and time-out the operation.</p>
*/
public interface Progressable {
/**
* Report progress to the Hadoop framework.
*/
public void progress();
}