[DRMAA-WG] Torque/PBS DRMAA - DRMAA_ERRNO_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED issue

[Daniel Templeton]

Actually, I think we added this in the IDL spec already, but it's 
called DRMAA_ERRNO_UNSUPPORTED_ATTRIBUTE.  Or something like that.

Daniel

On May 1, 2007, at 7:13 PM, Rajic, Hrabri wrote:

> Issue:
>
> In some cases it might be really hard or even impossible to implement
> some of the mandatory DRMAA attributes. For different DRMS this could
> vary. We therefore suggest adding a new error code to the 
> specification:
> DRMAA_ERRNO_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED.
> This value could be returned by drmaa_set_attribute() and
> drmaa_set_vector_attribute().
>
> Furthermore, in case of future development of DRMAA, it might be 
> desired
> to introduce optional routines and therefore 
> DRMAA_ERRNO_NOT_IMPLEMENTED
> error code could come in handy. One use of such an error code could 
> when
> using drmaa_control() one tries to request a job state change not
> feasible in specific DRMS.
> -------------
>
> This seems like a very good idea.   Since it is coming late in the
> process, I suggest we target the recommendation for DRMAA 1.1 Errata.
>
>
> -Hrabri
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