[SAGA-RG] missing(?) method reporting last modification time

[Andre Merzky]

Dear Sylvain, 

two small of comments to points not covered in your second
mail.


Quoting [Sylvain Reynaud] (Jun 04 2009):
> 
> >  NSEntry.remove() allows !Recursive flag:
> >
> >    The is actually in the spec, as
> >
> >      saga::directory d (url);
> >      d.remove (0);  // 0: empty flag set, i.e. Recursive is not set 
> >
> >    I think what you want is to change the semantics, from
> >
> >      - a â??BadParameterâ?? exception is thrown if the 
> >        entry is a directory and the â??Recursiveâ?? flag 
> >        is not set. 
> >
> >      - a â??BadParameterâ?? exception is thrown if the 
> >        entry is a *nonempty* directory and the 
> >        â??Recursiveâ?? flag is not set. 
> >
> >    Would that solve your use case?
> >  
> Yes (my use-case is: "how to implement rmdir").

I'll fix that in the spec, if nobody objects.


> >  job attribute 'NativeJobDescription' added
> >
> >    I assume that is a read-only attribute? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> >What is the use
> >    case for this one?  Debugging?
> >  
> Yes. I don't expect it to be included in the specification.

Understand.  For what its worth: this feature has been
discussed multiple times, but mostly in the other direction:
people wanted to be able to submit natve job submission via
SAGA.  That might (or might not) make it into the spec in
the next version.


Best, Andre.


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