If the intent of the DRMAA API was unclear, we should add a sentence. My suspicion is that intent was clear, but the DRMAA(SGE) user was confused why "-sync y" didn't work. -Roger ----Original Message---- From: Daniel Templeton <Dan.Templeton@Sun.COM> Sender: drmaa-wg-bounces@ogf.org To: DRMAA Working Group <drmaa-wg@gridforum.org> Subject: [DRMAA-WG] Blocking drmaa_run_job() Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 23:24:12 -0700 All, I just had a discussion on the SGE mailing list that should probably be a tracker for the IDL spec. A user attempted to use the "-sync y" option in the DRMAA native specification attribute, and was confused as to why it didn't work. -sync tells the SGE qsub command to block until the job finishes. The user wanted to bypass the drmaa_wait() call by doing a blocking drmaa_run_job() call. I looked through the DRMAA spec and the IDL spec, and neither actually declares whether the job submission routines should return before the job completes or not. That's probably an important detail that should be included. Daniel