Hive job gets killed and query execute() remains hanging

[magicalo]

I am using hive-jdbc-0.7.1-cdh3u5.jar. I have some memory-intensive queries
running on EMR which occasionally fail. When I look at the job tracker I see
that the query has been killed and I see the following error:

java.io.IOException: Task process exit with nonzero status of 137

However, the Hive JDBC driver execute() call does not detect this, but instead
is left hanging. No exception is caught. Any ideas? Thanks:

<code>
    ST stQuery = MY_QUERY;
    try {
        Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
        stmt.execute(stQuery.render());   // Hangs here without knowing that the
job has been killed. Exception does not get raised.
    }
    catch(SQLException sqle){
        sqle.printStackTrace();
        log.error("Failed to run query");
        return;
    }
</code>