buffers that are pre-build by slurmctl, using the old inline pack, and for this reason
did not use the assert checked functions

node info conversion

comm layer

fixed a few bugs with node info and reconfigure

Minor cleanup (i.e. comments) on other APIs.

   in quite awhile.

 o added section glossing over job initiation design and corresponding
   figures.

Modified print method to print to a file descriptor instead of stdout.

correct warning in qsw.c