[Condor-users] parallel universe & initialdir parameter

["Robert E. Parrott" <parrott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

I've seen how the parallel universe jobs don't use the PWD when  
condor is submitted, and that it doesn't honor the "initialdir"  
parameter of the submit file.

Is there a fix in the works for this (I'm using 6.8.5), or is this  
considered a desirable feature?

I note that for an mpirun wrapper script, I can cd to any directory I  
want just before the job is executed, and have worked around this by  
looking for an environment variable "INITIAL_DIR". I could go a step  
further if I could access within the mpirun wrapper script, the  
initialdir =  parameter, and essentially "patch" the behavior to be  
consistent with other universes.

So the question is, how might I access the "initialdir = " parameter  
from within this wrapper script.

thanks in advance,
rob