[saga-rg] Jobs and SandBoxing

[Christopher Smith]

On 25/8/05 07:29, "Tom Goodale" <goodale at cct.lsu.edu> wrote:

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> 
> On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Andre Merzky wrote:
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>>>> I am pretty sure it braks for some cases. E.g. the backend
>>>> may have a moving URL, or may reuse ID's (as Unix does with
>>>> pid's).  However, as long as it is not mandatory, it might
>>>> just help...
>>> 
>>> You're right, but it would be useful for many cases.
>> 
>> So I guess we should include it, because it is simple, does
>> not seem to break anything (its not mandatory, right?), and
>> seems to allow a number of useful use cases.  As its not
>> mandatory, we should add it to the notes section I guess.
>> 
>> Does anybody else on the list disagree?
> 
> I think it should be a hint for implementers, rather than required by the
> spec, as as far as end users are concerned it should be an opaque string.
> 
The benefit of exposing the format of the string is that users can use the
back end system identifier directly with the back end system commands and
APIs if they so choose.

-- Chris