[drmaa-wg] Boolean string values in c spec

Ed Baskerville lists at edbaskerville.com
Wed Jul 5 17:18:28 CDT 2006


Got another question...

In the C spec 1.0, the two boolean-valued attributes,  
drmaa_join_files and drmaa_block_email, have different string values  
for true and false. drmaa_join_files says to use 'y' or 'n';  
drmaa_block_email says '1' or '0'.

Should I follow this to the letter as an implementor of the 1.0 C spec?

The Java and IDL specs use actual boolean values rather than strings;  
will a later version of the C spec begin supporting non-string  
attribute values? If not, will these be made consistent?

Thanks,
Ed





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