- If you run the client with --run_test_app,
runs "test_app" in the current directory and interacts with it
(and does nothing else).
It can suspend/resume it with arbitrary timing;
this is controlled in run_test_app() (app_start.cpp).
- example app: add --critical_section option.
This lets you test the runtime system for apps that do
most of their work in a critical section (like GPU apps).
- Add some logging messages (conditioned by DEBUG_BOINC_API)
to the runtime system.
- boinc_finish() waits for the timer thread to write final messages;
make sure it doesn't do anything else
(like suspend the worker thread) during this period
BOINC_QUERY_BATCHES now prints, for each queried batch,
a count of jobs followed by the jobs
BOINC_ABORT_JOBS takes a list of jobs, which may belong to different batches.
The handler for this looks up the batches and makes sure
the jobs belong to the user.
- XML parser: for parse_string(), malloc the 256KB buffer instead of
allocating it on the stack; the latter crashes threads with 32KB stacks.
However, do the malloc() only if we've actually seen the start tag
(this required a bit of code shuffle).
- BOINC GAHP: escape spaces in error msgs
VBOX: Adjust the set_cpu_usage() and set_network_usage() function prototypes to use ints and handle the preference conversion in the calling function.
VBOX: Set the minimum CPU usage value to 5%, if for some reason somebody chooses 0% (on purpose or bug) VirtualBox goes nuts. This should give the VM at least enough time to render a few frames and eventually boot.
Set the temporary exit delay to one day if an incompatible version is detected. This gives the volunteer a chance to take corrective action before the task errors out after it exceeds its deadline.
On Linux the currently signed-in user has to be added to the vboxusers group in order to handle bridging USB devices. If the user has not taken that step virtual box throws a warning that looks like an error. This caused vboxwrapper to believe that the VM had failed to start. Since we do not know of any VM enabled problem that needs to communicate with an external USB device, just disable the feature entirely.
- remote job submission:
- prefix error messages with "BOINC server:"
so higher levels can tell where the error is coming from
- "get templates" RPC can take job name instead of app name
- Condor interface
- add BOINC_SELECT_PROJECT function
- BOINC_SUBMIT no longer has info about output files
- Change BOINC_FETCH_OUTPUT semantics
- change "query_batch" to "query_batches"; allow multiple batches
- add "ping server" web RPC and GAHP function
- change BoincDb::get() so that it generates XML error message if needed
- add Web RPC for querying a completed job (returns status,
stderr out, run times, etc.)
- support Jaime's changes to GAHP protocol
- support for zipped output files
David Anderson