[torquedev] qalter with blank walltimes sets walltime to zero

[David Singleton]

Chris Samuel wrote:
> ----- "David Singleton" <David.Singleton at anu.edu.au> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>> You may be saying what I understand to be the case but just
>> clarifying
>>
>>   qsub -lresource=  jobid
>>
>> will "unset" the resource limit for that job
> 
> Ahh, of course, in my decaffeinated state that completely
> passed me by!
> 
> Coffee++;
> 
>> so that the limit will fall back to any queue or server default.
> 
> Unfortunately that's not the case for walltime, it looks
> like the decode_time() function makes it to be 0 instead. :-(
> 
>   if ((val == NULL) || (strlen(val) == 0))
>     {
>     patr->at_flags = (patr->at_flags & ~ATR_VFLAG_SET)|ATR_VFLAG_MODIFY;
                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And it also marks it "not set".


> 
>     patr->at_val.at_long = 0;
> 
>     /* SUCCESS */
> 
>     return(0);
>     }
> 
> cheers,
> Chris