[Swift-devel] Condor-G jobs left in the queue upon completion/hold

[Mihael Hategan]

On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 10:24 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > Yeah. I think job logs might be a better solution to figure job state
> > than +leave_in_queue, check, -leave_in_queue.
> 
> Interestingly, Miron said the same to me only yesterday...
> 
> Alain Roy is also watching this and agrees.
> 

Though that suffers from its own problems:
1. If a different log is used for every job, lots of files may need to
be tailed at once.
2. If a single file is used for every job, is there any guarantee that
entries in the log are written atomically?