[gridengine users] Possible OGE Bug with Subordinate Field when using OGE GUI

[Dave Love]

Joseph Farran <jfarran at uci.edu> writes:

> Well, this is a horrible bug specially for anyone starting out with OGE.

OGE is Oracle Grid Engine, which is rumoured to be trademarked, though I
couldn't find a registration.

> Imagine if this was a software program that every time a user ran
> emacs (editor) on the code *without* making any changes, the editor
> would automatically make changes to the code.

[We don't have to imagine such things in Emacs -- multiple features
can/do modify the buffer of found files.  The correct Emacs analogy is
surely clobbering Customized definitions.]

> If I had any control over this software product, I would have broken
> the ability to change the subordinate field with the GUI until the bug
> was corrected.

I thought the issue was that you _didn't_ change it?  The input CULL
data are mis-interpreted, so there's not much you can do to preserve
them without implementing slot-wise support.

Qmon is maintained in SoGE, but this is non-trivial to fix and in the
absence of incentives there are more important issues.  As far as I can
tell, it's only a problem if you use qmon with qconf-set slot-wise
subordination (which seems pretty buggy anyway).

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