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

[Rajic, Hrabri]

Minimal completeness and spec stability issues needs to be reconciled.
Keeping a 1.1 Errata list and agreeing on a window of time when to
switch to 1.1 implementations could be one way to go.  That needs to be
coordinated with all implementation providers, especially the commercial
ones.
Lightweight and workable process is what we need.

Touching the subject with Greg Newby and our ADs could be a good idea,
after we get an agreement internally. 

Taking the name from the IDL spec is probably the way to go.

Hrabri



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan.Templeton at Sun.COM [mailto:Dan.Templeton at Sun.COM]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:45 PM
>To: Rajic, Hrabri
>Cc: drmaa-wg at ogf.org
>Subject: Re: [DRMAA-WG] Torque/PBS DRMAA -
>DRMAA_ERRNO_ATTRIBUTE_NOT_IMPLEMENTED issue
>
>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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