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

[Peter Troeger]

> Issue:
>
> As for the current DRMAA 1.0 specification, we also find it  
> inconvenient
> to have only state DRMAA_JOB_PS_FAILED that does not differentiate
> between job failure and user requested job termination.
> ------------
>
> I believe this was dictated by either a desire to keep the # of states
> to a minimum and/or availability of drama_w* functions to  
> differentiate
> between failed and aborted jobs.   We need to put this request to a  
> new
> Tracker to be addressed during work on the future versions.

Sounds consequent, since we also distinguish between user suspended  
and system suspended state. The same should hold for the failed  
status. However, we need to specify if a user-terminated status  
should only be given when the termination was performed through the  
DRMAA interface.

Peter.