[gridengine users] Characters in admin mail forcing contenttype octect-stream

[Reuti]

Hi,

Am 04.08.2011 um 02:21 schrieb Kevin.Buckley at ecs.vuw.ac.nz:

> The majority of machines in the School's Grid here at VUW have
> been switched, from the previous NetBSD OS, over to an ArchLinux
> OS.
> 
> I have noticed that admin mail, eg notification of a failed job,
> from the Grid Engine (GE 6.2u2_1, ok, ok, it's old) which used
> to appear as a single text message body, trips the base64
> encoding in the ArchLinux's heirloom-mailx MDA and so you
> no longer get plain text.
> 
> Looking at the admin email content, the characters that result
> in such an encoding being required, are ones appearing in lines
> such as
> 
> 07/24/2011 15:34:50 [96:15007]: RLIMIT_CPU setting: (soft 0INFINITY hard
> 0INFINITY) resulting: (soft 0INFINITY hard 0INFINITY)
> 
> and seem to be, Ctrl-H  #x8

yes, it's a known bug. The backspace should rub out an already printed 0:

http://arc.liv.ac.uk/pipermail/gridengine-users/2010-March/029490.html

It's still in the source and lies in:

59	#define FORMAT_LIMIT(x) (x==RLIMIT_INFINITY)?0:x, (x==RLIMIT_INFINITY)?"\bINFINITY":""

which will be printed by:

649	#  define limit_fmt "%d%s"


On Linux this could be fixed by specifying a precision of 0 for the decimal output:

649	#  define limit_fmt "%.0d%s"

So that the zero won't be printed at all, and the backspace can be removed from the FORMAT_LIMIT(x) definition.

I have no access to Solaris to test whether their:

647	#  define limit_fmt "%lu%s"

provide a similar mechanism to supress any output.

-- Reuti


> Any insight as to why these characters are there, and could their
> place not be taken by something "plainer" ?
> 
> Just wondering,
> Kevin
> 
> -- 
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> School of Engineering and                         Phone: +64 4 463 5971
> Computer Science
> Victoria University of Wellington
> New Zealand
> 
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