[torquedev] [torqueusers] Change in interactive job behavior from previous torque versions.

[David Beer]

Glen,

It appears my changes didn't completely reverse the earlier changes - there was something I missed. I have retested and it turns out that the bug that was fixed was unrelated. The changes have now been committed.

David

----- Original Message -----
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Glen Beane < glen.beane at gmail.com >
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> On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM, David Beer <
> dbeer at adaptivecomputing.com > wrote:
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> In other words, the old behavior was an exploit of a bug in TORQUE.
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> I'm pretty sure it was a documented feature of OpenPBS/PBSPro/TORQUE
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> from the qsub man page (this happens to be TORQUE 2.3.8):
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> "If the -I option is specified on the command line or in a script
> directive, or if the "interactive" job attribute declared true via the
> -W option, -W interactive=true, either on the command line or in a
> script directive, the job is an interactive job. The script will be
> processed for directives, but will not be included with the job. When
> the job begins execution, all input to the job is from the terminal
> session in which qsub is running."
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> "The script will be processed for directives, but will not be included
> with the job"
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> this is not an exploit. This is a documented behavior that has been
> used for YEARS.

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David Beer | Senior Software Engineer
Adaptive Computing