On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 10:03 AM Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > > > Some cluster sites need the creation of a workspace for the job in a > >scratch area before the actual job submission, and on the other hand they > >don't accept all characters as name of the workspace. Hence the plain job > >name often can't be used here. > > puzzled two ways: why not use the numeric jobid, and why would configuring > the scratch space be too slow to perform in the job prolog?
i agree this sounds exactly what a job prolog is supposed to do. there must be more to the story.
