Slurm API(3)

NAME
slurm_hostlist_create, slurm_hostlist_shift, slurm_hostlist_destroy - Slurm host list support functions

SYNTAX

#include <slurm/slurm.h>

hostlist_t slurm_hostlist_create (
    char *node_list
);

char * slurm_hostlist_shift (
    hostlist_t host_list
);

void slurm_hostlist_destroy (
    hostlist_t host_list
);

ARGUMENTS

node_list
    A list of nodes as returned by the slurm_job_step_create functions. The returned value may include a simple regular expression to describe numeric ranges of values and/or multiple numeric values (e.g. "linux[1-3,6]" represents "linux1", "linux2", "linux3", and "linux6").

host_list
    A hostlist created by the slurm_hostlist_create function.

DESCRIPTION

slurm_hostlist_create creates a database of node names from a regular expression describing node names. Use slurm_hostlist_destroy to release storage associated with the database when no longer required.

slurm_hostlist_shift extracts the first entry from the host list database created by the slurm_hostlist_create function.

slurm_hostlist_destroy releases storage associated with a database created by slurm_hostlist_create when no longer required.

RETURN VALUE

slurm_hostlist_create returns the host list database or NULL if memory can not be allocated for the database.

slurm_hostlist_shift returns a character string or NULL if no entries remain in the database.

EXAMPLE

#include <stdio.h>
#include <hostlist.h>
#include <slurm.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
    hostlist_t my_hostlist;
    char *hostnames, *host;

    /* generate a list of hostnames, possibly using a */
    /* slurm job step creation function */

    my_hostlist = slurm_hostlist_create (hostnames);
    if (my_hostlist == NULL) {
        fprintf (stderr, "No memory\n");
        exit (1);
    }

    while ( (host = slurm_hostlist_shift(my_hostlist)) )
        printf ("host = %s\n", host);

    slurm_hostlist_destroy (my_hostlist) ;
    exit (0);
}

NOTE
These functions are included in the libslurm library, which must be linked to your process for use (e.g. "cc -lslurm myprog.c").

COPYING
Copyright (C) 2002-2006 The Regents of the University of California. Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (cf, DISCLAIMER). UCRL-CODE-217948.

This file is part of SLURM, a resource management program. For details, see <http://www.llnl.gov/linux/slurm/>.

SLURM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

SLURM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

SEE ALSO

slurm_get_job_steps(3), slurm_load_jobs(3), slurm_load_partitions(3)