[drmaa-wg] corrections to api specification

[Andreas Haas]

Hi Greg,

thanks so much for your feedback! I updated DRMAA WG tracker database
to ensure it gets not forgotten with next version. Please find the
related URLs below.

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Andreas

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Greg Hewgill wrote:

> I am currently implementing a DRMAA interface on top of an existing
> job control system. I'm reading the document "C Bindings DRMAA 1.0
> Specification document version 0.95" linked from http://drmaa.org. I
> have found a number of errors in this document:
>
> Interface header file:
>
> - The DRMAA_JOB_IDS_SESSION_ALL and DRMAA_JOB_IDS_SESSION_ANY
> definitions appear to be mixed up. The _ALL constant is defined to the
> _ANY string and vice versa.
>
> - The DRMAA_DURATION_HLIMIT and DRMAA_DURATION_SLIMIT constants have
> misspellings in their definitions ("durartion").

You're right ... both are bugs with C language bindings

   https://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/?aid=1142
   https://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/?aid=1143

>
> C binding example:
>
> - There are unnecessary semicolons after the first three #include directives.
>
> - A cut and paste error seems to have introduced two spurious lines
> including "drmaa-wg at gridforum.org" and a page number in the program
> text. This also caused an indent formatting error starting with "if
> (argc < 2)".
>
> - In the statement "for (i=0; I < NBULKS; i++)", I should be a lowercase i.
>
> - After the second call to create_job_template(), the error message
> refers to a create_sleeper_job_template() function.
>
> - In the statement "for (i=0; I JOB_CHUNK; i++)", the I should be
> lowercase and a less-than sign is missing.
>
> - In the "finished regularly" status message, a % is missing in the
> format specifier for exit status.

   https://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/?aid=1144

>
> In "Distributed Resource Management Application API Specification
> 1.0", I was also wondering about the definition of some of the job
> template allowed values. The drmaa_block_email attribute allows "0" or
> "1", while the drmaa_join_files attribute allows "y" or "n". Should
> these not be consistent?

   https://forge.gridforum.org/tracker/index.php?aid=855