Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of BatchSystems

Timestamp:

Mar 15, 2010, 8:07:10 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

loomis

Comment:

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BatchSystems

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  * [https://computing.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/documentation.html Documentation]
 
+Although MacOS X is listed on the site as one of the supported platforms.  It uses a non-posix call (GNU extension)
+within the C library that does not exist on MacOS X: getgrent_r().  This call is in the file partition_mgr.c.
+This is intended to be a reentrant (thread-safe) version of getgrent() that allows looping over the defined groups.  
+Hence the code does not compile on MacOS X. 
+
+The manpages for similar C functions are explicitly marked as being thread-safe.  However, this particular function
+is not so marked and testing would have to be done to determine whether it is indeed thread-safe.  Rewriting the 
+code would be fairly easy to do if getgrent() on MacOS X is indeed thread-safe. 
+
+This problem occurs with both the production release of slurm (2.1.4) and the development release (2.2.0-0.pre2). 
+
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