[gridengine users] export of environment variables from start_proc_args

[William Hay]

On 6 July 2012 20:10, Mark Dixon <m.c.dixon at leeds.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, William Hay wrote:
> ...
>> That looks lime an OpenMPI bug to me.  Possible alternative ugly solution:
>> make " orted" a link to orted (or a script that execs orted).  I tend to
>> think of starter_method as being a bit of a swiss-army chainsaw lets you
>> do a lot of things but is potentially very dangerous if you make a
>> mistake so I'd prefer ugliness outside the starter_method to complexity
>> inside it.
> ...
>
> Yup, these things ought to be fixed at source; however, I think that
> leaving the ugly in the critical path will save me time in the long run by
> dealing with new examples of the same problems.
>
> Fancy a modest wager?

No that would bring the wrath of murphy down on the pair of us.

>
> Of course, if I was a good citizen, I'd syslog whenever the ugly did
> something and fix whatever triggered it. It turns out that I'm too lazy to
> be a good citizen :)
>
>> We're using posix_compliant with a default shell of /bin/env to simulate
>> unix_behavior for reasons of backward compatibility.  Should be fun.
>>
>> W.Hay Esq ornate grid engine configurations a speciality
>
> Yowsah.
>
> Go on - what's the subtlety you've hit there?
>
Nothing terribly subtle...yet.   It exists so we can use the JSV to force rbash
as the shell in certain special cases while not changing the (unix_)behavior of
the system for regular users.  I suspect I may run into some funnies
with it if unusual arguments are passed to  starter method since /bin/env isn't
a posix compliant shell.

William