Re: [HTCondor-users] transfer plugin exit codes

[MÃtyÃs Selmeci <matyas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not strict at all -- OSG uses 11 in one of our plugins to indicate a "retryable" failure.  Any nonzero exit code results in a hold with the HoldReasonSubCode being the exit code left shifted by 8 (so multiplied by 256).  We have a PeriodicRelease that retries the job after a random delay in case it was one of these failures.

-Mat

On 11/15/2022 8:25 AM, Thomas Hartmann wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> quick question on transfer plugins - how strict is the constraint on
> exit codes 0,1,2? According to
>   
> https://htcondor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/admin-manual/setting-up-special-environments.html#enabling-the-transfer-of-files-specified-by-a-url
> these three exit codes are the (only?) expected ones by Condor.
>
> Potentially, I would like to distinguish between a few fail reasons,
> e.g., if a file is not present vs a file only nearline. So that one
> could send a job back into hold and maybe release it later on if a file
> was nearline but not release it, if not found in the namespace. I.e.,
> evaluating `HoldReasonSubCode` occasionally.
>
> Cheers,
>     Thomas
>
>
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