Jessica, I have now figured this out and the problem has been fixed in
svn. The next alpha will contain this fix.

Thank you for your help
M

Jessica L. Greer wrote:
> Command arguments appear not to be taken into account when comparing 
> "commands" promises against recently executed promises.  
> 
> In the following example, the first command echoes each item in the list, 
> while the second echoes only "apple", followed by two ifelapsed lock 
> messages.
> 
> It would make sense to me if this were by design, so that just the 
> promiser itself is compared against the db in every case.  If that's so, 
> perhaps args should not support list expansion?
> 
> 
> body common control
> {
> bundlesequence  => { "main" };
> }
> 
> bundle agent main
> {
> 
> vars:
> 
> "testlist" slist => { "apple", "banana", "carrot" };
> 
> commands:
> 
> "/bin/echo test1 $(testlist)";
> 
> "/bin/echo test2"
>   args => "$(testlist)";
> 
> }
> 
> 
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3     Promise: /bin/echo test1 apple
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3
> cf3  -> Promiser string contains a valid executable (/bin/echo) - ok
> cf3  -> Executing '/bin/echo test1 apple' ...(timeout=0,owner=-1,group=-1)
> cf3  -> (Setting umask to 77)
> cf3 Q ".../bin/echo test1": test1 apple
> cf3  -> Last 1 QUOTEed lines were generated by "/bin/echo test1 apple"
> cf3  -> Completed execution of /bin/echo test1 apple
> cf3 Performance(Exec(/bin/echo test1 apple)): time=0.0037 secs, av=0.0041 
> +/- 0.
> 0064
> cf3
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3     Promise: /bin/echo test1 banana
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3
> cf3  -> Promiser string contains a valid executable (/bin/echo) - ok
> cf3  -> Executing '/bin/echo test1 banana' 
> ...(timeout=0,owner=-1,group=-1)
> cf3  -> (Setting umask to 77)
> cf3 Q ".../bin/echo test1": test1 banana
> cf3  -> Last 1 QUOTEed lines were generated by "/bin/echo test1 banana"
> cf3  -> Completed execution of /bin/echo test1 banana
> cf3 Performance(Exec(/bin/echo test1 banana)): time=0.0038 secs, av=0.0038 
> +/- 0
> .0062
> cf3
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3     Promise: /bin/echo test1 carrot
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3
> cf3  -> Promiser string contains a valid executable (/bin/echo) - ok
> cf3  -> Executing '/bin/echo test1 carrot' 
> ...(timeout=0,owner=-1,group=-1)
> cf3  -> (Setting umask to 77)
> cf3 Q ".../bin/echo test1": test1 carrot
> cf3  -> Last 1 QUOTEed lines were generated by "/bin/echo test1 carrot"
> cf3  -> Completed execution of /bin/echo test1 carrot
> cf3 Performance(Exec(/bin/echo test1 carrot)): time=0.0037 secs, av=0.0037 
> +/- 0
> .0061
> cf3
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3     Promise: /bin/echo test2
> cf3     .........................................................
> cf3
> cf3  -> Promiser string contains a valid executable (/bin/echo) - ok
> cf3  -> Executing '/bin/echo test2 apple' ...(timeout=0,owner=-1,group=-1)
> cf3  -> (Setting umask to 77)
> cf3 Q ".../bin/echo test2": test2 apple
> cf3  -> Last 1 QUOTEed lines were generated by "/bin/echo test2 apple"
> cf3  -> Completed execution of /bin/echo test2 apple
> cf3 Performance(Exec(/bin/echo test2 apple)): time=0.0037 secs, av=0.0041 
> +/- 0.                           0064
> cf3 Nothing promised for [commands.args.._bin_echo_test2] (0/1 minutes 
> elapsed)
> cf3 Nothing promised for [commands.args.._bin_echo_test2] (0/1 minutes 
> elapsed)
> 
> 
> -Jessica
> 
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