From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <13426df10904171939l5e9fd9ccu645c1f125e1973f6@mail.gmail.com> References: <13426df10904171515g571f7781x38ca528cfbce1149@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130904171535j4ecac3b4t64251cb52ba81b71@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904171601s413675a3nd88d89dbd7fa4bb2@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130904171906v360fa304qea85ac5962d440f0@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10904171939l5e9fd9ccu645c1f125e1973f6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:43:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3aaafc130904171943i1e43171eqe995a2c882db26c9@mail.gmail.com> From: "J.R. Mauro" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] Plan9 - the next 20 years Topicbox-Message-UUID: e4d909ce-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:39 PM, ron minnich wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:06 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: > >> Yeah, the problem's bigger than I thought (not surprising since I >> didn't think much about it). I'm having a hard time figuring out how >> Condor handles these issues. All I can see from the documentation is >> that it gives you warnings. > > the original condor just forwarded system calls back to the node it > was started from. Thus all system calls were done in the context of > the originating node and user. "Best effort" is a good place to start. > > >> But this still has the 90% problem you mentioned. > > it's just plain harder than it looks ... Yeah. Every time I think of a way to address the corner cases, new ones crop up.