[DRMAA-WG] Torque/PBS DRMAA - drmaa_wait clarification

[Daniel Templeton]

This is another one addressed in the IDL spec.

Daniel

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

> Issue:
>
> The DRMAA 1.0 specification does not clarify whether drmaa_wait()
> running in one thread, should react to job submission event in the 
> other
> thread. This leads to ambiguity and makes this behavior implementation
> dependant.
>
> ---------------
>
> This situation leads to thread races and un-deterministic behavior.
> Drama_wait would wait on the submitted and not yet done/failed jobs at
> the moment it has been issued.  A clarification might be needed in the
> spec.
>
> -Hrabri
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