[Swift-devel] Re: execute2 IDs

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 10:38 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> execute2s used to have an explicit unique ID - the jobid; but not after 
> r1268 was put it, it looks like, because that comes from the execute layer 
> and is shared by all execute2 that run inside an execute.
> 
> it looks like that will change the behaviour of job working directories - 
> rather than having a separate job directory and kickstart record for each 
> attempt to run (i.e. each execute2) I think that means that these will now 
> attempt to be shared between all invocations.
> 
> I think (at least from the kickstart perspective) that is undesirable.

Hmm. I did that because you seem to have wanted logging messages at the
execute level. Perhaps that should be reversed.

> 
> It would be useful to have both an execute-level ID (roughly analogous to 
> a VDL1 derivation name) and an execute2-level ID (that identifies a 
> particular attempt to perform a VDL1-derivation-analogue).

I think that's too much complication. We'll stick with the thread as
being the execute level ID.

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