Re: [Condor-devel] Issues with output files and checkpointing

[Peter Keller <psilord@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:11:48PM -0600, Daniel Forrest wrote:
> Solution: If the checkpoint can not be read, reset the LastCkptServer
> attribute in the JobAd so we will not try to read this particular
> checkpoint again.  A patch for this follows:

I'm integrating this patch into Condor for the next release of the
developer series. I just have to check it in, which I'll do monday.

> Hack: A source level fix is to "ftruncate(fd, lseek(fd, 0L, SEEK_CUR))"
> when the file is closed.  Of course, it would be preferable to not have
> to modify all of our source code.

This one I need to inspect closer to see if we just can't have Condor do this
for us.

Thank you.

-pete