[drmaa-wg] The meaning of a conflict

[Peter Troeger]

Hi,

the current Condor DRMAA implementation returns  
DRMAA_ERRNO_CONFLICTING_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES every time you try to set  
the same attribute a second time. Both the DRMAA 1.0 and the IDL-spec  
only declare that this error code is reserved for cases where the  
attribute value conflicts with earlier settings.

The problem seems to be that there is no explicit list of job  
template attribute interdependencies. One obvious example is  
"JOIN_FILES", but there are more. Also the description of the error  
code is not clear enough.

The Condor solution is the most easiest (and compliant !) one, but it  
breaks some test cases ;-)  What is the strategy in the other  
implementations ? Do we want to have a more detailed description in  
the spec ?

Regards,
Peter.